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ICE Facial Recognition App Mobile Fortify Reportedly Misidentified Woman Twice During Immigration Enforcement in Oregon

AI Incident Database · article · Jan 19, 2026 · UTC

During an immigration enforcement operation in Oregon, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly used the facial recognition application Mobile Fortify to identify a detained woman. The system reportedly returned two different and incorrect identities for the same individual across separate scans.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2025-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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