Comment by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

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. Unverified source (2026)