We banned the government from using facial recognition technology in San Francisco. Recent revelations that the FBI and ICE are pillaging state driver's license records show Congress must do the same.
Technology should work for the public good, not against it. Yet recent revelations that the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are pillaging state driver's license records to conduct facial recognition surveillance recall the controversy in 2013 over secret mass surveillance by the National Security Agency.
Meanwhile, reports by federal oversight bodies indicate that the FBI and ICE have failed to take steps to ensure the accuracy of their facial recognition capabilities. In the context of the U.S. government's unjust and hazardous deportation policies, the consequences of misidentification are dire—and can be deadly.
While some leaders in the tech community are withholding the sale of their technology to government actors, others, like Amazon, have been complicit in the separation of families at our border and the senseless deportation and disruption of immigrant communities across the country. Protesters across the nation are demanding that Amazon stop selling its controversial facial recognition software to government agencies.
Even if 100 percent accurate, mass surveillance by facial recognition—the likes of which authoritarian governments like—exposes Americans to an Orwellian dystopia. With the ability to track your every move in the public realm and instantly link your identity with other databases, government entities will know every detail of your personal life, from the friends you hung out with last weekend, to every recent online purchase you've made, to where you slept last night.
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