Request to implement Moratorium on Federal and Governmental Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Abstract

We, the undersigned civil rights, civil liberties, immigrants’ rights, religious, free speech, technology and privacy organizations write to ask your Administration to address the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by the federal government. The use of FRT in policing, public housing, schools, and other areas of public life poses profound and unprecedented threats to core civil rights and civil liberties. For those reasons, we specifically urge you to: ● Take swift executive action to place a moratorium on all federal government use of FRT and other forms of biometric technology ...; ● Prevent state and local governments from using federal funds to purchase FRT or access FRT; and ● Support the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, introduced by Senator Markey...