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Since she was in her car they could have identified her by her car’s number plate - but facial recognition sounds scarier - which I guess is the point.

• notepad0x90 8mo ago
  it's not speculation, they specifically tell people that they're using facial recognition. They threaten protestors that they're entering them into a domestic terrorist database using facial recognition. They're arresting people and detaining them for long periods of time without due process, even while having proof of citizenship (real id, passports) on them, because of a facial recognition hit.
  • caminante 8mo ago
    >They threaten protestors that they're entering them into a domestic terrorist database using facial recognition. Is this in article? I figured it was using traveler photos stored in Customs/Border Patrol systems (e.g., Global Entry).
    • fnordpiglet 8mo ago
      Who knows, but ICE agents are terrorizing people with the threat. It’s fascinating that the Ministry of Information is trying to redefine terrorist to mean something other than the people who try to induce mass terror for political gain: https://newrepublic.com/post/205629/ice-agent-threat-domestic-terrorism-database-filming-public https://newrepublic.com/post/205629/ice-agent-threat-domesti...
      • eproxus 8mo ago
        I mean, they kind of have to, when they are the ones falling under that very same definition, right?
        • goatlover 8mo ago
          Along with MAGA supporters who buy pizzas and leave threatening messages for judges and politicians who rule against or oppose Trump after he makes a social media post decrying them. Senator Elissa Slotkin talked about all the death threats she and her family received when the president was calling her treasonous and saying she along with the five others who were reminding military and intelligence members of their oath to the Constitution.
      • _DeadFred_ 8mo ago
        Would be cool if America required law enforcement not to be able to lie to citizens so we could actually know what is going on, and what law enforcement is doing. But I guess police secrets/secret policing/lies are better for an open society.
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• kmoser 8mo ago
  A plate identifies a car, not a driver.
  • caminante 8mo ago
    Unless you have permissive use or named drivers, the registered person should be driving the car. Besides, it's a good guess: >Hey Maggie >I'm not Maggie. I'm Sarah. Here's my ID. Maggie loaned me her car.
    • JohnFen 8mo ago
      As if the DHS cares about your ID.
      • caminante 8mo ago
        They might not, but a plaintiff's civil rights attorney care$.
  • rationalist 8mo ago
    With the protestors entering in rental car license plates of ICE or suspected ICE agents into their own database, I wouldn't want to rent a car anytime soon - the possibility of getting a car previously rented by ICE or suspected ICE, and being assaulted by having whistles blown in my ears, is off-putting.
    • rolph 8mo ago
      you know this sounds like a dystopian storyline. due to the vehicles recent usage: it starts with a rental car trip, an "incidental roadrage" incident while travelling, then the surveillance and whistle blowing starts at a rest stop, and then the complete lockout from any business, lodgings, or financial dealings. no fuel, no food no water... i wonder how the story ends.
    • fnordpiglet 8mo ago
      ICE routinely (and illegally) puts on fake plates, claiming sovereign immunity to violate state law.