Defending Rights and Dissent signed a coalition letter of civil rights, privacy and other civil society groups which outlined the issue and encouraged Congress to take action. Multiple groups have begun petitioning for more stringent requirements on the technology. The Congressional hearings ended with no clear consensus on the future of facial recognition. Amazon had been attempting to pitch this software to law enforcement in an effort to consolidate the market on facial recognition. In this test, Latino and Black lawmakers were disproportionately misidentified. For example, one study showed the program misidentifying 28 members of Congress as suspects in mugshot photos. Notoriously Amazon, which collaborates extensively with ICE, developed facial recognition software, “Rekognition,” that proved to be widely unreliable. In certain airports, like Charlotte Douglas International, facial recognition could become the norm on international flights, part of an explicit attempt to track migrants coming in and out of the country. The database they use to check on passengers is also linked to Customs and Border Patrol showing how the expansion of this technology in law enforcement has meant greater partnerships with private companies as well. Delta airlines has begun using facial recognition to verify passengers, a practice that is still optional. At the same time a number of private companies have begun using facial recognition technology, or developing their own. Cities like Detroit and Chicago have implemented facial recognition on a large, real-time scale. In the last few years, the use of facial recognition has grown in a number of ways. The program is part of a greater parternship between local law enforcement and ICE to execute the crackdown on undocumented immigrants. In Florida the database that ICE and the FBI have access to is known as Face Analysis Comparison & Examination System (FACES) and is broadly used by law enforcement agencies in Florida. This has meant that the wide log of people ICE and the FBI run facial recognition on extends far beyond undocumented migrants. Additionally, when doing searches of driver’s license databases law enforcement casts a wide net and collects data of people regardless of their immigration status. The extent of surveillance using state drivers license records according to a joint investigation of Georgetown Law researchers and The Washington Post was more than 390,000 logged cases of searching driver’s license databases in 21 states. Vermont and Utah, had previously allowed ICE to access to the driver’s license database, but stopped allowing ICE access in 2017. So far, ICE and the FBI have requested to use facial recognition on state driver’s liscene databases to identify undocumented immigrants in Utah, Vermont, Illinois, and Florida. This has come at a time when ICE has made raids around the country, and the Trump administration has faced intense scrutiny for its inhumane treatment of migrants at the border. Recently, it was discovered that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using facial recognition to match driver’s license photo’s with suspected undocumented immigrants. This comes as Congress attempts to determine how to move forward with facial recognition as its use becomes more widespread. Two recent House hearings have focused on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) use of facial recognition.
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