DENVER (KUSA) - ICE is reportedly purchasing technology to scan people’s eyes from several feet away.

The agency issued a notice to purchase artificial intelligence technology that can scan people’s eyes to locate and identify those who are in the country illegally.

The technology allows agents to capture someone’s iris from 10 to 15 feet away by using the camera on their iPhone with an app that matches the iris with a photo they already have.

“The iris is the part of your eye that everybody sees. The color, it has stripes in it... They are unique to an individual,” Steve Beaty said.

Beaty is a computer science professor at Metropolitan State University Denver.

“You can do it from quite a distance away, depending upon the magnification of your device,” he said.

On a government contra

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