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ICE To Pay Up To $10 Million For Clearview Facial Recognition To Investigate Agent Assaults. ICE handed the controversial facial recognition company its biggest federal contract to date as it continues its illegal immigration crackdown.


ICE handed the controversial facial recognition company its biggest federal contract to date as it continues its illegal immigration crackdown.

Albert Fox Cahh, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project The contract, signed last week, is worth $9.2 million, which is Clearview’s biggest award from any government department to date. “At a moment when the government is charging protesters who throw food with felony assault, it's clear that this tech will just become another way to silence dissent,” said Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. ICE has also recently purchased mobile spyware from Israeli-founded company Paragone Solutions, wiretapping systems from Pen-Link and phone forensics tools from Cellebrite and rival Magnet.

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