Overview
- DHS budget documents reported by journalist Ken Klippenstein describe a Science & Technology project to build smart glasses for ICE with operational prototypes and a target availability of September 2027.
- The glasses would capture video and match faces and even walking gait against federal biometric databases to identify people in real time through a heads-up display.
- A DHS attorney quoted anonymously warned the effort could reach beyond immigration checks and place protesters under closer watch.
- The reporting says the devices could also record people without their knowledge and feed new domestic watchlists.
- Officials have notified Congress about the project, yet leaders on the Homeland Security committees have not commented publicly, even as the plan draws on post‑9/11 biometric systems like ABIS and the military’s watchlists.