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superrific said:
Duh. The stories are always false.

People need to never forget what Vance admitted in 2024 on the campaign, when talking about the pet eating. He refused to apologize for inventing stories if it helps him get elected. He didn't put it exactly like that (he said he would invent stories to show the american people the reality but of course we know what he meant).

So every single anecdote Vance ever tells should be treated as presumptively false. He admitted it.
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I'm just going to assume at this point that JD Vance actually grew up in the Hamptons.
 
altmin said:
www.theguardian.com

ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare | Moustafa Bayoumi

Mobile Fortify lets agents obtain vast amounts of information on anyone by scanning their face
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ICE is reportedly using the app on people it suspects of being in the country without authorization, but this presumption comes with its own host of problems. (ICE is also believed to be scanning random people of color on the streets to determine citizenship.) Representative Bennie G Thompson, the ranking member of the House homeland security committee, told 404Media that ICE considers “an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify [to be] a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship – including a birth certificate – if the app says the person is an alien”.

It gets worse. In a document obtained by 404Media, the government admits that “it is conceivable that a photo taken by an agent using the Mobile Fortify mobile application could be that of someone other than an alien, including US citizens or lawful permanent residents”. No one, citizen or non-citizen, is allowed to opt out, either. And, as the document states, “[e]very new photograph or fingerprint, regardless of match, is an encounter and stored and retained in ATS [Automated Targeting System] for 15 years”.

Fifteen years is an absurdly long time to retain such data. As a point of comparison, the TSA’s use of facial recognition is optional, and the agency says it deletes photographs after verification has been made. Then again, testimony during a 21 January hearing revealed that the TSA has been assisting ICE by checking passenger information for immigration enforcement operations.
 
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