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Border Patrol Agent Allegedly Claimed Facial Recognition Identified Minneapolis ICE Observer and Global Entry Was Reportedly Revoked Three Days Later

January 10, 2026

On 01/10/2026, near Minneapolis, MN, legal observer Nicole Cleland claimed a CBP Border Patrol agent used facial recognition to identify her while recording on body cam. She alleged this incident led to the revocation of her Global Entry and TSA PreCheck on 01/13/2026. This raises concerns about safe and secure AI practices, potential retaliatory intimidation, travel burden, and chilling effects.

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Alleged deployer
united-states-customs-and-border-protection, united-states-border-patrol, unnamed-united-states-border-patrol-agent, united-states-department-of-homeland-security, united-states-immigration-and-customs-enforcement
Alleged developer
nec
Alleged harmed parties
nicole-cleland, legal-observers, immigration-enforcement-observers, general-public, general-public-of-the-united-states

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1362

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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