House Democrats introduced legislation that if passed would force federal immigration enforcement agents to wear a public-facing identification in the form of a clearly visible and scannable QR code during enforcement actions.
The measure, H.R. 7233, was introduced last week by Rep. Ritchie Torre, a Democrat from New York, and referred to the House judiciary and homeland security committees. It currently has two cosponsors, Democratic Reps. Darren Soto and Shri Thanedar, and has taken no steps beyond initial referral.
QR codes do have some degree of error correction.
Try it. Draw over some white spaces. It’ll still scan.
Yeah, I think it might have been Veritasium that did a video on it, but they can still be made unscannable. Ultimately, they don’t wear barges as is, and their body cams seem to only work when they want them to, so what’s the point. Fascism doesn’t show it’s face. They are going to find ways to hide no matter what.
If you open any online QR code generator, you’ll see a redundancy field, which is a percentage and encodes for how damaged a code can get before it’s unreadable. you can set it pretty high. All that said, it’d be a hell of a lot better to abolish ICE.