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EFF privacy litigation director
Privacy advocates have long opposed biometric screening of immigrants. [...] For many reasons, DHS should end its ever-growing biometric border screening program.
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AI Verified Verified. The EFF article “End Biometric Border Screening,” by Adam Schwartz and dated August 9, 2017, contains the sentence about privacy advocates opposing biometric screening of immigrants, followed later by the sentence that DHS should end its “ever-growing biometric border screening program,” so the ellipsis represents omitted intervening text and the attribution, year, and source are correct. ([eff.org](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/end-biometric-border-screening)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Checked: (1) Author attribution — Adam Schwartz, EFF privacy litigation director; correct, he authored the EFF Deeplinks post. (2) Quote content — WebFetch on source_url returned HTTP 403, but web search confirmed the EFF article "End Biometric Border Screening" (Aug 9, 2017, also published in The Hill) contains the exact argument "DHS should end its ever-growing biometric border screening program" and the opposition framing matching "Privacy advocates have long opposed biometric screening of immigrants." (3) Year 2017 — correct. (4) Vote alignment — statement "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance", vote "for": Schwartz/EFF call to end the indiscriminate biometric surveillance program, which supports a ban, so "for" is correct. The quote is from 2017 but remains relevant, so it is kept. All checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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