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Privacy Crisis: Calls to Regulate ICE's Facial Recognition

11/1/2025

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Lawmakers Regulate Recognition

Facial recognition use by U.S. agencies, especially ICE, faces growing privacy and democracy risks due to a lack of oversight.
Jeramie D. Scott of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) criticizes ICE's facial recognition use as lacking guidelines.
A class-action lawsuit against Clearview AI alleges ties to alt-right ideologies and unauthorized biometric data collection.
Democratic lawmakers have proposed regulating facial recognition, including a ban on its use for immigration enforcement.

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Thompson Critiques Surveillance

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed ICE agents can use Mobile Fortify during enforcement operations.
The app stores images for 15 years, including for U.S. citizens, without consent.
Bennie G. Thompson, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticized the practice as unconstitutional and cited race-based targeting undermining Supreme Court rulings.
The system connects to a database of over 200 million images, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns.

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Lawmakers Regulate Recognition

Facial recognition use by U.S. agencies, especially ICE, faces growing privacy and democracy risks due to a lack of oversight.
Jeramie D. Scott of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) criticizes ICE's facial recognition use as lacking guidelines.
A class-action lawsuit against Clearview AI alleges ties to alt-right ideologies and unauthorized biometric data collection.
Democratic lawmakers have proposed regulating facial recognition, including a ban on its use for immigration enforcement.

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