ICE Facial Recognition App Mobile Fortify Reportedly Misidentified Woman Twice During Immigration Enforcement in Oregon

Summary

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.

Developers

• United States Department of Homeland Security
• Facial recognition system developers

Deployers

• United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• United States Customs and Border Protection
• National security and intelligence stakeholders
• Law enforcement
• Facial recognition system deployers

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