These Senators Want Homeland Security To 'Pause' Its Facial Recognition Program At Airports
with the goal of using facial recognition technology on “100 percent of all international passengers" in the top 20 US airports by 2021. Today, Democratic Sen. Ed Markey and Republican Sen. Mike Lee released a joint statement calling on DHS to"pause" the program.
"DHS has failed to follow through and appears to be expanding the program," the senators said in a Tuesday statement ."Further, DHS has a statutory requirement to submit a report to Congress detailing the viability of biometric technologies, including privacy implications and accuracy.
This is the third such DHS rebuke from Sens. Markey and Lee, who first asked the agency to halt its use of facial recognition technology in airports in a
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