ICE’s Clearview AI Contract

CBP just awarded a fresh contract to Clearview AI, a company notorious for scraping massive amounts of images from social media and racking up privacy violations worldwide.

This new deal would let border officers identify travelers simply by taking their picture, and it is slated to go live in September 2026. It also builds on a previous $3.75M ICE contract that was marketed as a way to identify “ICE protestors.”

The message is clear. Opposing surveillance can make you a target. In practice, a single selfie can be enough to match your face to public profiles and flag you as a person of interest.

What you can do: treat photos as sacred, avoid auto cloud uploads, shrink your public footprint, and consider de googled phones like Above Phone.

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