ICE Facial Recognition App Mobile Fortify Reportedly Misidentified Woman Twice During Immigration Enforcement in Oregon
Description
During an immigration enforcement operation in Oregon, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly used the facial recognition application Mobile Fortify to identify a detained woman. The system reportedly returned two different and incorrect identities for the same individual across separate scans.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- united-states-immigration-and-customs-enforcement
- united-states-customs-and-border-protection
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
- law-enforcement
- facial-recognition-system-deployers
Alleged Developers
- united-states-department-of-homeland-security
- facial-recognition-system-developers
Harmed Parties
- unnamed-woman-detained-by-united-states-immigration-and-customs-enforcement
- privacy
- individuals-subject-to-immigration-enforcement
- immigrants
- general-public-of-the-united-states
- general-public
- biometric-data-subjects
- women-and-girls
- women
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
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