cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45305134
These new ICE Glasses, building on available glasses that allow video recording and heads-up data display, will be able to pulse vast federal holdings of biometric data — from facial recognition to walking gait — to identify people in real-time.
Per the budget document:
“The project will deliver innovative hardware, such as operational prototypes of smart glasses, to equip agents with real-time access to information and biometric identification capabilities in the field.”
A Department of Homeland Security attorney who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity said of the ICE Glasses project, “It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets, but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protestors.” The official also says that the technologies and algorithms behind the smart glasses are as applicable to general government surveillance as they are to the current immigration war.
16 Comments
MBech@feddit.dk · 42 pts · 113d
Gentlemen, this is what the ministry of silly walks has been waiting for, for a very long time.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 113d
If your walk isn't silly enough, the machine rejects you from the Ministry applicant pool. This is known as gait-keeping.
Overwrite7445@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 113d
it gait rates people. It's gait rate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSOHGGgKD4
LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 113d
Good thing I have too much tolerance for walking in a crowd or am in too much of a hurry to walk at any definitive pace lol.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
Like the sports drink.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 113d
Can't be gait identified if you're using emobility.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 113d
Oh cool. We've started handing out the False Positives Device to our Digital Age Gestapo.
Wakmrow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 113d
Buy guns
moustachio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
This really is the answer
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d
Famously, folks who stockpile guns in their basement are the dominant political force in our society.
That's why the Northern Colorado secessionist movement was such a success story.
etherphon@piefed.world · 32 pts · 113d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 15 pts · 113d
its the latest in tacticruel.
etherphon@piefed.world · 5 pts · 113d
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 113d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 13 pts · 113d
we really need a law around this. biometric records like fingerprinting only occured at arrest but we need to have something to eliminate all biometrics unless you are in due process or have a conviction. If they can't convict then it should be thrown out and any unwilling biometrics should not be allowed to be collected outside of due process. Voluntary biometrics should be guarded like mail or other things. It can be used for identification for governement related processes like getting benefits or paying taxes but not just queried for investigations.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 113d
Trump DOJ: "No, that's unconstitutional"
SCOTUS: "Looks unconstitutional to us."
5th Circuit: "Actually, its illegal for you not to have biometrics on file"
Local Officer: looking up from a crowd of police kicking a guy in the ribs "You hear someone say something?"
Linken@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 113d
Literal police state.
RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 3 pts · 113d
I'm sure nothing could go wrong....