evacideFeb 5

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

WIRED
Show threadAIienatedFeb 5

@evacide I think much of this is intentional and a type of DDoS attack: flood different zones to overwhelm them. Flood courts with illegal, bogus cases. Flood cities with violence. Withdraw federal aid and funding to overwhelm state and local resources. Flood feeds with scandal and spectacle. The list goes on…

Collectively I think we can defeat these attacks

Show threadpunIssuer
@ghoti @evacide Looks like the administration is rather DDoSing itself instead of courts:
https://newrepublic.com/post/206115/this-job-sucks-doj-attorney-judge-contempt-ice-court-orders
“This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt

A lawyer working with the Minnesota attorney’s office said she just wants some sleep, after working so hard to try to get ICE to follow court orders.

The New Republic
Feb 5 at 10:17pmWeb