Looking ahead: possible return to “political” denaturalizations. IDENT was built by a subsidiary of the transnational identity management company Gemalto.460 In March 2017, DHS announced a request for proposals to build a new biometric database that will house up to 500 million records.461 Marc Crego, the “chief architect” of the US-VISIT database (created in 2004, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, to collect and store non-citizens’ biometric data at U.S. ports of entry),462 explained that IDENT’s current operations exceed its technical capabilities. He noted, “The current DHS identity management system was designed to house up to 200 million people’s fingerprints, and support up to 250,000 identification transactions per day. Today the system has over 240 million identities and is conducting over 300,000 transactions per day, while simultaneously adding in face and iris biometric matching technologies.” Plans and specifications released concerning the new database, Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART), raise significant privacy concerns. One digital privacy organization has noted, “HART will support at least seven types of biometric identifiers, including face and voice data, DNA, scars and tattoos, and a blanket category for ‘other modalities.’ It will also include biographic information, like name, date of birth, physical descriptors, country of origin, and government ID numbers. And it will include data we know to by highly subjective, including information collected from officer ‘encounters’ with the public and information about people’s ‘relationship patterns.’”463 The collection of data on “relationship patterns” is especially problematic given the current administration’s approach to denaturalization. This functionality of the HART database not only may chill First Amendment free speech, but would also provide a new tool to fuel investigations under the “attachment” and “good moral character” elements of denaturalization cases, likely leading to an increase in political denaturalizations. Privacy rights groups have also pointed out that, as is the case for existing datasets, the underlying data that will populate the HART database is fundamentally unreliable for many of the reasons articulated above,464 with flaws that will disproportionately affect communities of color.465 The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently noted: FBI and MIT research has shown that current face recognition systems misidentify people of color and women at higher rates than whites and men, and the number of mistaken IDs increases for people with darker skin tones. False positives represent real people who may erroneously become suspects in a law enforcement or immigration investigation. This is true even if a face recognition system offers several results for a search instead of one; each of the people identified could be detained or brought in for questioning, even if there is nothing else linking them to a crime or violation.466 104 UNMAKING AMERICANS