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EPIC is proud to endorse the ICE Out of Our Faces Act, a bill introduced by [...] that would ban any immigration officer, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), from acquiring and using facial recognition and other biometric identification systems. In the past year, ICE and CBP have used facial recognition to try to identify individuals and verify citizenship. This often violates key civil liberties and rights, including the First Amendment. Chillingly, ICE denies individuals the right to opt-out, and retains the data collected for 15 years.
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AI Verified Verified: the EPIC page at the cited URL, dated February 11, 2026, contains the quoted passage verbatim across two consecutive paragraphs. The omitted [...] corresponds to “Senators Markey, Merkley, Wyden, and Jayapal,” and the text appears on EPIC’s official site, so attributing it to EPIC is correct. ([epic.org](https://epic.org/epic-endorses-new-bill-to-ban-ice-and-cbp-from-using-facial-recognition-technology/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable The source_url (epic.org "EPIC Endorses New Bill to Ban ICE and CBP from Using Facial Recognition Technology") returns HTTP 403 Forbidden to my fetcher. Web search confirms the quote is verbatim accurate: EPIC endorses the ICE Out of Our Faces Act (introduced by Senators Markey, Merkley, Wyden, and Rep. Jayapal — the text elided by the "[...]"), which would ban ICE/CBP from acquiring and using facial recognition and other biometric identification, and the page states ICE "denies individuals the right to opt-out, and retains the data collected for 15 years." Year 2026 matches (bill introduced Feb 5, 2026). The vote "for" on statement 412 ("Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance") aligns with EPIC's endorsement of the ban. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source URL blocks automated access; the quote is accurate and correctly attributed to EPIC. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 10d ago
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