How ICE agents are using facial recognition to bring surveillance to the streets
NBC News·2026-02-06 15:01

Civil liberty advocates and some lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the privacy risks of federal agents using surveillance toolkits during immigration enforcement operations. >> Yeah. Armed with facial recognition on their smartphones and professional camera gear, ICE agents are actually photographing the faces of the people they encounter during their daily operations.So, it's all setting a new precedent for street level surveillance and raising a lot of new privacy concerns. >> NBC News AI fellow Jared P ...

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