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Author: Goofyhoofy 🐝🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: A new use for AI
Date: 08/31/2025 7:46 AM
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AI is unmasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

A new twist in the debate over surveillance tech raises tough questions for policymakers.
An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance.

Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, estimates he and a group of volunteers have publicly identified at least 20 ICE officials recorded wearing masks during arrests. He told POLITICO his experts are “able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.”

The AI-powered project adds a new twist to the debates over both ICE masking and government surveillance tools, as immigration enforcement becomes more widespread and aggressive.
ICE says its agents need to wear masks to prevent being unfairly harassed for doing their jobs.


The story is from Politico. The link is to Apple News:
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Author: PucksFool   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A new use for AI
Date: 08/31/2025 8:34 AM
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Politico link
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/ai-unmask...
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Author: UpNorthJoe   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A new use for AI
Date: 08/31/2025 8:35 AM
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The fact that these ICE agents are wearing masks stinks to the high heavens. It's
like they are ashamed of the tactics they are using, so they hide their face. Trump
admin says the masks are worn because they fear that ICE agents will be targeted
if their identity is known. Trump followers should spend a few minutes thinking about that.

Trump's tactics suck so bad that they fear an uprising from the American people, so they
cowardly cover their faces. I'm glad AI can piece together an identity, but if/when
people start posting the generated ID, and a picture, of ICE agents, they can expect
a visit from the Trump goons.

41 months to go, unless the Country get lucky somehow.
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Author: onepoorguy   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A new use for AI
Date: 08/31/2025 1:14 PM
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ICE says its agents need to wear masks to prevent being unfairly harassed for doing their jobs.

That goes both ways. If some activist has figured this out on his own, you know the government (FBI, ICE, etc) is using it also, against the people. Of course, most people go to protests without masks because they have nothing to hide while exercising their rights. Unlike, say, Proud Boys.
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