ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE and CBP have been using the Mobile Fortify app to scan faces over 100,000 times, but the tool was never built to definitively confirm a person's identity and was approved after DHS ignored its own privacy rules. The app only provides a rough “match confidence” score for officers, leaving significant gaps in accuracy, oversight, and civil‑rights protections.