• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. • The violence is shocking. • So are the intrusions on digital rights and civil liberties. • For example, immigration agents are routinely scanning faces of people they suspect of unlawful presence in the country - 100,000 times, according to the Wall Street Journal. • The technology has already misidentified at least one person, according to 404 Media. • Face recognition technology is so dangerous that government should not use it at all-least of all these out-of-control immigration agencies.
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- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced support for the “ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” a federal bill that would prohibit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and certain local police partners from acquiring or using biometric surveillance systems-including face‑recognition technology-or from relying on data derived from such systems. The legislation, led by Senator Ed Markey and co‑sponsored by Senators Merkley, Wyden and Representative Jayapal, aims to curb alleged abuses such as mass facial scans of suspected unlawful residents and misidentifications reported by media outlets. EFF argues that face‑recognition poses significant risks to civil liberties and should not be employed by these agencies. The bill includes enforceable private‑right provisions to hold violators accountable.
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