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U.S. senator from Massachusetts
It stops Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection from using facial recognition and other biometric-surveillance technologies. Period.
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AI Verified The Free Press article "Q&A with Sen. Ed Markey," dated February 24, 2026, presents this as part of Markey’s answer to “What is the ICE Out of Our Faces Act? What would it do?” The page contains the exact words: “It stops Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection from using facial recognition and other biometric-surveillance technologies. Period.” This makes the quote a real, verbatim excerpt correctly attributed to Ed Markey. ([freepress.net](https://www.freepress.net/blog/qa-sen-ed-markey-ice-surveillance)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Verified. The Free Press source URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote is genuine and verbatim from the Free Press "Q&A with Sen. Ed Markey" interview at that exact URL: "It stops Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection from using facial recognition and other biometric-surveillance technologies. Period." Markey is describing his ICE Out of Our Faces Act (S. 3779), bicameral legislation he introduced on February 5, 2026 (with Jayapal, Merkley, Wyden) to ban ICE and CBP from acquiring/using facial recognition and other biometric identification systems; endorsed by EFF, EPIC, ACLU, Access Now, Free Press Action, and others. As the bill's lead sponsor, Markey clearly supports banning this AI biometric mass surveillance, so the "for" vote on statement #412 ("Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance") correctly aligns. Year 2026 is correct and recent; author attribution (U.S. Senator from Massachusetts) correct; source is the freepress.net interview. No corrections needed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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