The Government Knows Your Face with 404 Media's Joseph Cox
The Home Front
Reed Galen
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At BP, we're delivering on our downstream plans. |
| 0:05.8 | Achieving 96% refining operating availability. |
| 0:09.9 | The best first half performance in our historical portfolio since 2001. |
| 0:15.9 | Helping to drive efficiency, reliability, and production to safely deliver for customers. |
| 0:23.0 | Learn more at BP.com forward slash strategy at work. |
| 0:29.6 | Hey Anna, I've got a new secret weapon for print. |
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| 0:35.6 | Print everything for your business with Vista print. Business cards, stickers, t-shirt, signage, even photo books from your last holiday. If you need it, we print it at vistoprint.com. Welcome back to the home front. I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today, I'm joined by security expert Joseph Cox. He is focused on generating impact. His investigations have |
| 0:55.8 | triggered hundreds of millions of dollars of fines against major telecoms, shut down data |
| 1:00.3 | brokers, stopped companies from selling data location linked to abortion clinics, pushed lawmakers |
| 1:05.4 | to write new privacy legislation, and touched the world of technology, crime, and surveillance |
| 1:10.4 | in countless other ways |
| 1:11.8 | through his work at 404 Media. Joseph, welcome. |
| 1:16.2 | Thank you so much for having me. Really excited to be here. |
| 1:18.3 | All right. So in your, on the website of 404 Media, 404Media.404Media.com, the latest story you |
| 1:25.4 | wrote just published today as we're recording is you cannot refuse to be scanned by ISIS facial recognition app, DHS document says. |
| 1:33.3 | Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years regardless of immigration or citizenship status. |
| 1:40.2 | The document says. So why do they need to hold on? I was born here, lucky enough to have been born here. |
| 1:47.0 | Why do they need to hold on in my picture for 15 years? Because the ICE app is based on the |
| 1:53.9 | Customs and Border Protection System, they are uses to verify travelers. If you know this system where |
| 2:00.5 | it takes a photo every time you enter |
| 2:02.3 | the United States or your visa photo or your US passport photo as well, I believe, that's all |
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