Homeland Security Reportedly Wants To Develop Smart Glasses For Ice

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reportedly processing smart glasses that could beryllium utilized to cod intelligence connected immigrants and US citizens, journalist Ken Klippenstein reported. The devices would thief ICE agents place "illegal aliens" from a region by capturing video and comparing it to biometric information for illustration facial nickname and stepping gait, according to fund documents seen by Klippenstein. The DHS wants to deploy nan "ICE Glasses" by September 2027.

"The task will present innovative hardware, specified arsenic operational prototypes of smart glasses, to equip agents pinch real-time entree to accusation and biometric recognition capabilities successful nan field," nan archive states. The glasses could let agents to comparison observed subjects against existing biometric databases and place them successful existent clip during interactions.

Such devices could thief make surveillance of US residents "ubiquitous," according to nan report. "It mightiness beryllium portrayed arsenic seeking to place forbidden aliens connected nan streets, but nan reality is that a push successful this guidance affects each Americans, peculiarly protestors," a DHS lawyer speaking connected nan information of anonymity told Klippenstein.

The deployment of specified devices is worrying to civilian liberty groups, peculiarly successful ray of caller rule enforcement activities nether nan Trump administration. The FBI was reportedly directed by nan Department of Justice to "compile a database of groups aliases entities" who show "anti-Americanism," according to a erstwhile Klippenstein investigation.

It's not nan first clip smart glasses person travel up successful reports astir nan DHS. An investigation by The Independent past period recovered that ICE and Border Patrol agents successful six states were utilizing Meta's AI smart glasses of their ain accord, successful imaginable usurpation of DHS rules. Congress has reportedly been notified of nan DHS's Ice Glasses task but has yet to remark publicly.