WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced they introduced the ICE Out of Our Faces Act. The bicameral legislation would rein in the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), banning agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using and deploying FRT and other biometric identification systems.
The new bill-which Merkley and Wyden co-led with Massachusetts' U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey and U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07)-follows public reports of the Trump administration's increasing surveillance tactics by DHS, including ...