ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies

This is their global headquarters.

Yes, that appears to be the whole thing.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/488+State+Rd+%231,+Plymout...

I really don’t understand how so many people can support this admin. It’s not that I ideologically disagree with them, but they are so corrupt that they appear incompetent. They actually aren’t incompetent, they just don’t care about what is important to almost everyone else. If you, for example, don’t care about public safety or accountability it turns out you can make a lot of money.

I thought Altman's worldcoin was angling for this when they had people take photos of their eyeballs.... getting into the gov't contracting side of things.... surprises me some no-name company got it.

I’ll save you a click: yes, of course it was a no bid contract. And:

> The procurement did not require the system to clear FedRAMP, the government’s security review for cloud systems handling sensitive data, before deployment. It described no independent audit, congressional notification or outside review of how the system would be used.

I don’t know how the US charts a path back from all this. There are going to be so many breaches to fix.

So the police state has upgraded from papers to eyeballs

> The award describes the purchase as covering iris biometric recognition technology and access to a biometric information system "to allow ICE agents to quickly authenticate the identity of subjects during field operations."

Note that absent reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime, law enforcement in the US cannot legally forcibly identify people.

This is federal shock troops (masked and unidentified, at that) gearing up for mass scale human rights violations. They are already flying facial recognition drones at extremely low altitudes over sidewalks in downtown LA and other places.

Ryan Ballard strikes again.

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Fuck yeah.