The push to ID masked #protesters using #FacialRecognition & turn them in is blurring the line between #public #law enforcement & #private groups.And the efforts have stirred anxiety among foreign #students worried that #activism could jeopardize their legal status.

“We don’t know who these individuals are or what they’re doing with this information,”said Abed Ayoub, natl exec dir of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Cmte. “Essentially the administration is outsourcing surveillance.”
#Trump

A #RightWing Jewish group said some identified w/the tool were on a list of names it gave to #Trump’s admin, urging that they be deported in accordance w/his call for the expulsion of foreign #students who participated in “pro-jihadist” #protests.

Other pro-#Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on #campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in #Gaza to #ICE.

“Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain!” a fledgling #technology company boasted in a social media post, claiming its #FacialRecognition tool had identified the woman despite the coverings.

She was anything but a lone target. The same software was also used to review images taken during months of pro-#Palestinian marches at #US #colleges.