ICE’s Smart Glasses Are a Worst-Case Scenario
THE SO WHAT
Smart glasses wired into biometric databases and facial recognition turn every field agent into a mobile checkpoint—this is surveillance infrastructure, not a gadget. Any company touching wearables, CV, or identity needs a governance stance now, before their tech is pulled into similar deployments by default.
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