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ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App
- josefritzishere 5mo agoYour tax dollars, hard at work.
- brianjlogan 5mo agoprotection money
- tokai 5mo agoBut aren't they still resisting wearing body cameras?
- tencentshill 5mo agoThese will probably not count as body cams for some reason, so will be subject to different regulations, or none at all.
- pessimizer 5mo agoThat's not what was happening. Anti-ICE activists are now against body cameras. > https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body... But when Democrats are back in power, they'll be for it. They'll issue these these exact same smart glasses, from this same vendor, to all law enforcement as the way to "Eliminate Trump's ICE."
- mcphage 5mo agoIt helps when the source you include supports the claims you make of it. The source you included does not: > Obviously we want them to be wearing body cameras
- orwin 5mo agoFirst, read the post you linked before. Second, the "but the other side is bad too", even if true (and i am sure it will be true for some) is the most birdbrain take. Do you think the democrat will suddenly have 6 supreme court judges authorizing this kind of shit?
- rexpop 5mo agoCool counterfactual, bro.
- JohnTHaller 5mo agoResisting body cameras. Wearing masks to avoid responsibility. Being moved to other locations after murdering US citizens. Etc
- FireBeyond 5mo agoOr just outright avoiding it. When Michael Reinhoel was shot in Lacey, WA, a few minutes away from me (and I was actually a paramedic at the time, on duty, but not dispatched to this), by the US Marshals, there was a distinct oddity that no-one really picked up on. > A U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson said the task force attempted to arrest Reinoehl, and officers shot him after he produced a gun and fled on foot. The team included officers from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department Wait, Pierce County? That County's border is miles away from unincorporated Lacey, and the "center" is effectively 30 miles (Lacey is a tri-city with Olympia and Tumwater, and Pierce County's seat is Tacoma). Why PCSO, and not Thurston County SO? Well, the other agencies involved (like the WA DOC, which was an odd inclusion) don't (or didn't, this was 2020) wear bodycams. TCSO... does. PCSO... doesn't. There was already a belief that he would not survive an encounter with LE, but without commenting on that, it's odd that you'd choose not to involve the agency who would ordinarily be responsible for that geographic area, just to use one from the next county. So no bodycam footage of his final moments exists.
- PhunkyPhil 5mo agoIt's no secret they've been tracking people's faces as much as they can. The morning of Pretti I was on Lyndale and there were two men wearing "press" jackets with DLSRs taking pictures of people's faces in the crowd. They were eventually recognized and yelled out, but it was quite an unnerving feeling.
- LightBug1 5mo agoPerfect addition to any self-respecting Junior Stasi outfit ...
- vamos_davai 5mo agoI'm not a fan of surveillance state, but I'm also not a fan of high crime and false arrests. If we're just tying up the police and having bloated budgets, we should get rid of publicly funded police and allow police to be a corporate benefit like healthcare.
- pickleglitch 5mo agoIsn't that a key plot point of Robocop? But seriously, it's a great idea. I mean, just look how well healthcare as a corporate benefit has worked out!
- jrochkind1 5mo agoWait, Robocop wasn't meant to be a techno-utopia?
- Schiendelman 5mo agoI'd buy that for a dollar!
- Natfan 5mo agoi fail to see how for profit policing with less oversight would be a good thing for the general citizenry?
- Shalomboy 5mo agothat's a particularly useful sort of naive comment
- canada_dry 5mo agoOrwell never even envisioned this form of state surveillance!
- TranquilMarmot 5mo agoPhilip K Dick did at least, in A Scanner Darkly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly > When performing his work as an undercover agent, Arctor goes by the name "Fred" and wears a "scramble suit" that conceals his identity from other officers. Then he is able to sit in a police facility and observe his housemates through "holo-scanners", audio-visual surveillance devices that are placed throughout the house. When will we need to start wearing "scramble suits"
- notepad0x90 5mo agoyeah, you needed the tv's to watch you in his world, and even then humans needed to watch the feed, no AI/automated monitoring.
- bediger4000 5mo agoThis smells like a way to funnel money to someone. There's no way a small number of "Smart Glasses" will be cheap, and the warlord(s) in charge can spec it in ways to increase costs, funnelling even more money to that someone. Classic US grifting from the government, in my judgement. We should find out who made this decision, and it will be interesting to see who gets the contract(s) for it. As we've seen with DoD acquisition, even a failed program can keep the money spigot open for years, too.
- puppycodes 5mo agoThis was my thought as well, a good excuse for a slush fund.
- jrochkind1 5mo agoThe good excuse for the slush fund was $75 billion in supplementary funding Congress approved for ICE with no particular reason or budget. At this point all of ICE is a good excuse for a slush fund.
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- jrochkind1 5mo agoI think it's both, they hope it helps them surveil better, they don't really mind if it doesn't or doesn't to the extent of it's cost, cause the right people still got paid. This is pretty much all federal government now.
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- cdrnsf 5mo agoAbolish ICE and DHS. Everyone who works as an ICE ERO agent should be prosecuted and/or barred from any and all future public service.
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- zghst 5mo agoIt's like a game to be the shittiest of the shittiest gov't official playing around with technology to surveillance state (and they never ever just do the right thing, they go all out on breaking the law because technology is fun)
- cdrnsf 5mo agoRampant civil rights violations and murder, for starters.
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- e12e 5mo agohttps://archive.is/9mCde https://archive.is/9mCde
- loudmax 5mo agoWhile it's theoretically possible that this technology could work effectively, given the people involved, this project is probably a complete bamboozle that will divert funds away from enforcing the deportation of immigrants. In that light, it's probably a good thing.
- JohnTHaller 5mo agoYou mean like Trump's pool guy ruining the reflecting pool?
- dashundchen 5mo agoAn "emergency" no-bid contract awarded to a company with connections to Trump that has increased from $2 million to $15 million. And doesn't fix any underlying issues with the pool leaks. Small potatoes compared to estimated $7 billion in insider trades made on oil and betting markets, front running announcements on the illegal Iran war. [0] The corruption is sickening. [0] https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/7-Billion-In-Perfectly-Timed-Oil-Bets-Sparks-Insider-Trading-Fears.html https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/7-Billion-In-Perfectly...
- FireBeyond 5mo ago"$15M here, $15M there, and sooner or later you're talking about real money!"
- cyanydeez 5mo agoYou're overthinking it. They're going to give Meta a lot of money for the existing glasses to do the same thing but slap a stamp called 'secure' on them. It's just some grift economy.
- afavour 5mo ago> it's probably a good thing. Nah, much like the app it’s all about plausible deniability. It’ll be crap… but they’ll just make it give positive matches to as many people as possible so they can be dragged off.
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- apparent 5mo agoHow is anyone reading this article? I hit a paywall and didn't see how to read the whole thing.
- bcraven 5mo agoYou could pay. 404 does stirling work.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoWhy does 404 Media tend to get auto-banned on HN?
- apparent 5mo agoI was surprised at the volume of comments given that it's paywalled. It made me wonder if others had actually read the article or were just commenting on the headline.
- notepad0x90 5mo agobut then my bank and everyone watching my payment activity (yes, it is monitored and sold, and resold many times over) will know. Can I use crypto payment? Can I purchase crypto without all the legal hassle? can I pay in cash for some credit or token i can spend online anonymously? Nah..that'd make too much sense. With news paper all I needed was a few cents to purchase one, until the payment hassle is that simple, this isn't a good suggestion.