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This article is really long and really scary, and you should read every word of it.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Donate Subscribe Search… Photo collage featuring the silhouettes of immigrants (men, women, children) walking in a line; a facial recognition technology program box is overlaid on each of their heads. A distorted photograph of a glaring Donald Trump looms above the crowd.Vartika Sharma The Big Feature The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration. Luke O’BrienMay+June 2025 Issue Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. One evening in March 2017, Hoan Ton-That, an Australian coder building a powerful facial recognition system, emailed his American business partners with a plan to deploy their fledgling technology. “Border patrol pitch,” the subject line read. He hoped to persuade the federal government to integrate their product with border surveillance cameras so that their newly formed company, later named Clearview AI, could use “face detection” on immigrants entering the United States. An immigrant to the United States himself, Ton-That grew up in Melbourne and Canberra and claimed to be descended from Vietnamese royalty. At 19, he dropped out of college and, in 2007, moved to San Francisco to pursue a tech career. He later fell in with Silicon Valley neoreactionaries who embraced a far-right, technocratic vision of society. Now Ton-That and his partners wanted to use facial recognition to keep people out of the country. Certain people. Their technology would put that ideology into action. Clearview had compiled a massive biometric database that would eventually contain billions of images the company scraped off the internet and social media without the knowledge of the platforms or their users. Its AI analyzed these images, creating a “facepri…
December 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM