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NEW: Records also show DHS rushed Mobile Fortify out after abandoning its own facial-recognition oversight rules. Central privacy review was sidelined under orders from a Project 2025–linked former Heritage Foundation lawyer now serving as DHS chief privacy officer.

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“DHS has not publicly replaced its previous facial recognition directive, and it appears DHS has no policy or even restrictions on the use of facial-recognition technology,” says Jeramie Scott, senior counsel for the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center and director of its surveillance oversight program. The directive also prohibited “systemic, indiscriminate, or wide-scale monitoring, surveillance or tracking.” It said facial recognition could not be used to “profile, target, or discriminate against individuals for exercising their constitutional rights.” It forbade the use of tools that claim to analyze people’s faces to infer personal traits and characteristics (with a narrow exception for age). It also tied any use of facial recognition by ICE and CBP to a headquarters-level review and authorization process, to be carried out by DHS’s chief privacy and information officers, respectively. Fortify was fast-tracked less than two months after Directive 026-11 disappeared, in May 2025. CBP and ICE privacy officers alone concluded that no new privacy assessment was required under federal law—an authority it did not previously possess. Records show that such determinations historically rested with the DHS senior director of privacy compliance, a headquarters official acting on behalf of the department’s chief privacy officer and independent of operational agencies.
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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This is gonna end with a new agency called NICE under the CBP umbrella
January 28, 2026 at 11:49 PM