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Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by visekr on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:52PM (#45750527)
lol - I made something to do the same to ICE. Stores each ICE agent as a visual embedding and creates a database of all sighted agents.

https://www.realtimefascism.com/ice-sight

Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by jimmywetnips on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:16PM (#45750881)
thanks awesome. thank you for making this.

Can you go into any detail on what technologies you used? Is there enough differentiating data in their attire to actually match agents? None of them are showing their faces so I wonder how many false positives would occur

Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by visekr on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:40PM (#45751206)
yes! although the techniques aren't perfect.

I'm using a YOLO-WORLD-XL object detection model. Lets me detect objects using text. This is the initial filter that scans for agents - once those are detected and outlined with bounding boxes the entire image and each cropped bounding box are then sent to chatgpt to confirm if the image looks legit. Once image passes those checks - I create image embeddings of each agent using CLIP and those are stored in a vector DB, and each agent is then compared to the DB and matched.

The matching system isn't perfect - but I think good enough to get the point across and can be easily tuned with more data! Happy to take suggestions here - I just spun this up over the weekend

Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by yasp on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:57PM (#45750611)
What's your policy for complying with the patchwork of national biometrics laws?
Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:13PM (#45750826)
Ignore them? Operate outside of US reach. The tubes are global.

EDIT: Legally, you have no right to privacy in public, if your photo is captured in public (US centric), broadly speaking. You have the right to record law enforcement officers exercising their official duties in public.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-fil...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individ...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-...

Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by yasp on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:31PM (#45751080)
Taking someone's photo is different than storing their biometrics. The latter would violate laws such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...
Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:34PM (#45751119)
So avoid being subject to the US jurisdiction, if applicable. Do not store data or operate the system from within the US, or any country within US reach.

https://owasp.org/www-community/Threat_Modeling_Process

Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by visekr on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:55PM (#45752889)
No biometrics collected. It's only scanning bodys, clothes and details on gear.
Re:ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to ve... by UniverseHacker on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:01PM (#45753654)
Thank you for doing this! Great work.