Ron Wyden on Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

Ron Wyden

U.S. Senator from Oregon, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee; longtime advocate for healthcare and technology policy

ICE and CBP have trampled on our Constitution when they build databases of regular people concerned about ICE committing violence in their communities or scan the faces of people on the street to run through their surveillance systems. I'm glad to work with Senator Markey to protect Americans against harassment and biometric surveillance by Trump's handpicked militia.

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Markey, Jayapal, Merkley, Wyden Introduce Bill to Ban ICE and CBP Use of Facial Recognition Technology Amid Trump's Rapidly Growing Surveillance State.

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AI Verified The quote explicitly condemns ICE/CBP facial recognition, databases, and surveillance as harassment; that is directly relevant to banning AI for mass surveillance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote is clearly against mass surveillance and facial-recognition tracking by ICE/CBP, so the recorded answer for is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Authored quote appears verbatim in the Jayapal press release on 2026-02-05 and is attributed to Ron Wyden; source page includes the exact wording about ICE/CBP databases and facial recognition surveillance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

Passing FISA 702 without strong new guardrails, while doing nothing to stop the government from buying Americans' location data and feeding it into AI systems to conduct unprecedented mass surveillance, would be shocking negligence.

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