NYC Facial Recognition Startup Scraping Social Media to Identify Protestors

Published on April 20, 2025

NesherAI software, made with photos scraped from social media, is being used to identify protestors as targets for deportation.

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Source: Chris Burt, Biometric Update (March 31, 2025)

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