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Privacy Fears Rise as ICE Expands Biometric Surveillance

11/9/2025

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Department of Homeland Security is acquiring tools enabling ICE to identify individuals in public using facial recognition and iris scanning.
Senator Edward Markey leads Democratic senators who have raised privacy concerns and demand a legal basis from ICE.
ICE's use of spyware that can monitor phones via text messages raises privacy concerns.
Public comments on a proposed rule expanding biometric data collection will be accepted until January.

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Story summary

Department of Homeland Security is acquiring tools enabling ICE to identify individuals in public using facial recognition and iris scanning.
Senator Edward Markey leads Democratic senators who have raised privacy concerns and demand a legal basis from ICE.
ICE's use of spyware that can monitor phones via text messages raises privacy concerns.
Public comments on a proposed rule expanding biometric data collection will be accepted until January.