“Congress should set a floor for how and when this technology should be used, just as we have limits for wiretaps and other kinds of surveillance activities,” he said. “It’s the Wild West.”Ī quarter of all police departments have the capacity to use facial recognition technology, and the FBI runs an average of 4,000 searches a month, Laperruque noted. “Right now, it’s an incredibly invasive technology that’s being applied without limits,” he told TechNewsWorld. Rules need to be set on the general use of facial recognition, maintained Jake Laperruque, senior counsel for The Constitution Project at the on Government Oversight, a government watchdog group in Washington, D.C. The House Committee on Homeland Security plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday to learn how the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection and the Secret Service use the technology. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform held hearings in May and June on the impact of facial recognition technology on civil rights and liberties. The technology has attracted congressional attention in recent months.
“This practice should be stopped for the time being, and the use of facial recognition needs to be weighed by Congress and the public because it’s an extremely privacy-invasive technology that poses serious risks to civil liberties,” he told TechNewsWorld. Scott, senior counsel and director of the domestic surveillance project of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. “The use of DMV photos for facial recognition is essentially treating everyone as a suspect,” said Jeramie D. For example, in Utah, FBI and ICE agents performed more than 1,000 facial-recognition searches between 20. The records show that federal law enforcement has fostered a cozy relationship with state DMV officials, the Post found. Researchers at Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology used public records requests to gather a cache of documents that show the agencies have turned state DMV databases into the foundation of a vast surveillance infrastructure, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Without a license, it's unlikely they'll get insurance and the financial protection it grants to the person behind the wheel and everyone else sharing the road with them.State motor vehicle departments have become a rich source of facial recognition data for and FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. This will likely deter some people who want to safely drive on the road and who have current knowledge of driving regulations. Maryland allows ICE officials across the country access to the state's system without any oversight or court approval. While other states, including Utah, Vermont, and Washington, also use their driver's license-databases to match a person's identity, those searches are done by state officials, putting a firewall between the data and enforcement officials. Photo-recognition systems are capable of making mistakes, and those errors could lead to the wrong individual spending time in jail while trying to prove they're a citizen or documented immigrant. ICE has been known to arrest the wrong person during sweeps. Legal citizens and documented immigrants shouldn't rest easy. This type of unfettered access to such a large database of information has led to previous accounts of enforcement agents using access to spy on or stalk people.
Allowing ICE access to private information on the residents of Maryland without, apparently, any oversight or warrant, sets a precedent that driver information is an open book to anyone in enforcement who wants it.
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