Senators call on ICE to halt use of facial recognition as surveillance powers grow

ICE has quietly built one of the largest and most sophisticated domestic surveillance arsenals in the federal government, tapping into commercial data brokers, drawing from DMV databases, deploying cell-site simulators, and experimenting with a range of biometric technologies.
In their letter, Markey, Wyden, and Merkley warned that Mobile Fortify epitomizes the risks of such unchecked expansion, turning an agent’s phone into a roving biometric checkpoint.
“In the absence of meaningful regulation of the government’s use of facial recognition tools, the public is likely to be increasingly subject to ongoing, real-time surveillance,” they said, emphasizing that “this Big Brotherism means that individuals may be less able to move, assemble, or appear in public without the federal government identifying and tracking them … undermining the very core of our democracy.”

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