{"id":61903,"date":"2025-09-13T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61903"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:28:48","slug":"techdirt-activists-are-using-ai-to-identify-ice-officers-and-thats-definitely-not-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61903","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Activists Are Using AI To \u2018Identify\u2019 ICE Officers And That\u2019s Definitely Not Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2025\/09\/11\/activists-are-using-ai-to-identify-ice-officers-and-thats-definitely-not-good-news\/\">Activists Are Using AI To \u2018Identify\u2019 ICE Officers And That\u2019s Definitely Not Good News<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I know it\u2019s never great to blame the victim, but this all could have been avoided if ICE officers hadn\u2019t decided they all needed to act like paramilitary death squad members while raiding Home Depot parking lots. If you\u2019re in the sort of business you feel you can\u2019t do safely with your entire face exposed, you\u2019re in the wrong business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That this development was inevitable doesn\u2019t make it any more welcome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks \u2014 a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u201cable to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Activists Are Using AI To \u2018Identify\u2019 ICE Officers And That\u2019s Definitely Not Good News by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facial-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61913,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61903\/revisions\/61913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}