Biden Administration Asked to Address Federal Government's Use of Facial Recognition Technology

摘要

A group or civil rights, civil liberties, immigrants' rights, religious, free speech, technology, and privacy organizations and individuals have written a letter to President Biden asking that his administration address the use of facial recognition technology ("FRT") by the federal government.The letter asserted that the use of FRT in policing, public housing, schools, and other areas of public life posed "profound and unprecedented threats to core civil rights and civil liberties." It specifically urged the president to:1.Take swift executive action to place a moratorium on all federal government use of FRT and other forms of biometric technology so long as bias pervaded these systems and Congress had not acted to authorize the use of the technology in specific circumstances and with sufficient safeguards to protect privacy interests and prevent harms caused by this technology;2.Prevent state and local governments from using federal funds to purchase FRT or to access FRT; and 3.Support the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, introduced by Senator Markey.This bill would make a federal moratorium law and would place additional limitations on federal funding of these technologies.