Facial Recognition & Biometric Technology Moratorium Act Reintroduced in Congress
The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, originally introduced in 2020, was reintroduced June 15 by Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.).
The legislation would impose a blanket ban on most federal, state and local use of nearly all biometric and related image analytics technologies, which threatens the benefits of facial recognition technologies used by law enforcement, including: