Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  Using these [AI] systems for mass surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties. Unverified source

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  United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism

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  Indiscriminate AI-powered mass surveillance of the population must be prohibited. Unverified source (2025)

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  Arvind Krishna

  IBM chairman and CEO

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  IBM stands ready to work with you on measures to prohibit the use or export of facial recognition for mass surveillance [...]. Unverified source

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  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

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  The ACLU is calling on U.S. policymakers to contend with the technology’s enormous power, prohibit its use for mass surveillance [...]. Unverified source

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  UNESCO

  UN agency for education, science, culture

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  It bans as invasive the use of AI systems for social scoring and mass surveillance. Unverified source (2022)

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  Zoë Garbett

  London Assembly Member, Green Party

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  When responding make sure you say: • The Home Office should ban LFR deployment and installation of permanent facial recognition cameras. • LFR is an attack on individual and societal civil liberties and privacy. • LFR subjects the public to mass iden... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Alejandra Montoya-Boyer

  Civil-rights and technology policy leader

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  No matter where we’re from or the color of our skin, we should all be able to move freely in our communities without the fear of being spied on by our own government. But right now, facial recognition and other biometric surveillance tools are being ... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Port of Seattle

  Public port authority, Seattle, Washington

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  Many members of the public and various advocacy organizations have expressed concerns about the rapidly expanding use of facial recognition and other public-facing biometrics. These stakeholders have raised issues around privacy, equity, and civil li... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

  UN human rights office

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  The use of emotion recognition technologies, such as polygraphs, to try to infer how a person feels, what they think, or the veracity of what they are saying, is not only technologically flawed but also highly likely to result in discriminatory, bias... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

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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 recogn... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Liberties.EU

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  Not only does face recognition discriminate against people of colour, but it is also disproportionately targeted at marginalized individuals. In a law enforcement context, facial recognition is predominantly used in communities that are already over-... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Electronic Frontier Foundation

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  Face recognition is one of the most intrusive of all surveillance technologies. There are already numerous instances of law enforcement using this technology to misidentify and arrest innocent people. Now, immigration officers are harassing people on... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Dr. Nina Scheer

  German Bundestag member (SPD)

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  I reject large-scale facial recognition, for example at railway stations and airports. The possibilities for totalitarian surveillance are out of proportion to the benefits for fighting crime. Unverified source (2021)

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  Privacy International

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  States to ban the deployment of technologies, such as facial recognition in public spaces and in schools, where the risks of discriminatory outcomes are high Unverified source (2025)

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  Shockat Adam

  UK Member of Parliament

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  New clause 21 calls for a ban on live facial recognition because it is not safe, lacks legal legitimacy [...] Unverified source (2025)

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  Kim Van Sparrentak

  Dutch Member of the European Parliament

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  Mr President, without knowing, we are all being tracked, followed and identified on the streets by facial recognition cameras. This is dangerous, intrusive and disproportionate. Imagine waking up one day with the police barging into your house after ... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Matthew Guariglia

  EFF activism director

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  Police and other government use of this technology cannot be effectively regulated. Face surveillance in the hands of the government is a fundamentally harmful technology, even under strict regulations and if the technology was 100% accurate. This f... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Ashley Gorski

  ACLU National Security Project attorney

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  Unlike other ways of verifying a person’s identity, face recognition technology can enable persistent government surveillance on a massive scale. The public has a right to know when, where, and how the government is using face recognition, and what s... more Unverified source (2020)

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  Access Now

  Digital rights advocacy NGO

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  Perhaps the greatest threat posed by technologies that fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence comes from their ability to facilitate the mass surveillance of populations. Advances in machine learning in particular have significantly reduc... more Unverified source (2020)

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  Caterina Rodelli

  Access Now EU policy analyst

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  the lack of bans for AI systems used in migration confirms the EU does not seek to protect [...] rights when migrant people are the rights-holders. Unverified source (2023)

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  European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

  EU institutions’ privacy supervisor

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  Artificial Intelligence Act: a welcomed initiative, but ban on remote biometric identification in public space is necessary Unverified source (2021)

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  Shankar Narayan

  ACLU of Washington tech director

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  facial recognition, or face surveillance, is a uniquely dangerous technology that we believe should not be sold to the government. [...] across geographies, across time. Unverified source (2019)

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  Neema Singh Guliani

  ACLU senior legislative counsel

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  It's time for lawmakers to swiftly put the brakes on law enforcement use of face recognition, before it's too late. Unverified source (2020)

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  Joy Buolamwini

  Algorithmic Justice League founder

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  Given mass surveillance applications, not having my face detected can be a benefit. We do not need to look to China, to see this technology being used for surveillance of protesters with little to no accountability and too often in violation of our c... more Unverified source (2020)

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  Daniel Therrien

  Privacy Commissioner of Canada (2014–2022)

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  Clearview sells a facial recognition tool that allows law enforcement and commercial organizations to match photographs of unknown people against a massive databank of 3 billion images, scraped from the Internet. The vast majority of these people hav... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski

  European Data Protection Supervisor

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  The EDPS also welcomes the inclusion in the convention, among the definitions to be provided, of the notion of “AI subject” and, in connection with this definition, he inclusion of procedural safeguards and rights for “AI subjects” (namely, persons a... more Unverified source (2022)

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  European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

  EU advisory body for civil society

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  The EESC calls for a ban on use of AI for automated biometric recognition in publicly and privately accessible spaces, except for authentication purposes in specific circumstances, as well as for automated recognition of human behavioural signals in ... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Marcel Kolaja

  Czech digital rights activist; former MEP

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  I propose to ban deployment of such technologies without exceptions. Unverified source (2022)

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  India McKinney

  EFF Director of Federal Affairs

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  end its use of this abusive surveillance technology. A great place to start is its use for immigration enforcement, Unverified source (2026)

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  Pramila Jayapal

  U.S. Representative (D-WA)

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  We must urgently pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act to stop the proliferation of this technology, protect our communities, and protect our democracy, Unverified source (2026)

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  Human Rights Watch

  Global human rights advocacy organization

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  There is no safe-use case for this technology on our streets or at our borders. [...] ban facial recognition surveillance in these spaces Unverified source (2023)

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  Robyn Barnard

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  At a time of increasingly lawless actions by ICE, we are grateful for Senator Markey taking concrete steps to implement accountability measures to protect our communities with the introduction of the 'ICE Out of Our Faces Act.' No government official... more Unverified source (2026)

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  ARTICLE 19

  Free expression and human rights organisation

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  In this policy, ARTICLE 19 outlines its position on the effects that the development and deployment of biometric technologies have on the right to freedom of expression. This policy is motivated by concerns about the rapid and increased use of biomet... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Patrick Breyer

  Member of European Parliament, Pirate Party

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  „This proposal would justify the permanent and ubiquitious deployment of face surveillance to look for the thousands of ‚victims‘, ‚threats‘ and suspects of ‚serious crime‘ that are wanted at any time. We need to prevent a China-style dystopian futur... more Unverified source (2022)

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  European Data Protection Board

  EU data protection body

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  [...] call for a general ban on any use of AI for automated recognition of human features in publicly accessible spaces [...] in any context. Unverified source (2021)

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  Karen Melchior

  Danish MEP, Renew Europe

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  Secondly, there is also a gap with regard to the use of AI to profile migrants and asylum seekers [...] we also signed amendments prohibiting these practices. Unverified source (2023)

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  Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

  Council of Europe parliamentary body

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  Surveillance technologies for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers [...] AI-driven mass surveillance, such as drones and facial recognition, should be prohibited. Unverified source (2025)

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  Andrew Stroehlein

  Human Rights Watch media director

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  There is no safe-use case for this technology on our streets or at our borders. [...] ban facial recognition surveillance in these spaces. Unverified source (2023)

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  Silkie Carlo

  Director, Big Brother Watch

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  I agree very strongly with those points. There is also a case for a central register or inventory of all public sector algorithms so that we can at least surface where they are being used. If they had equality impact assessments as well, that would b... more Unverified source (2021)

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  European Data Protection Board (EDPB)

  EU data protection authority network

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  Taking into account the extremely high risks posed by remote biometric identification of individuals in publicly accessible spaces, the EDPB and the EDPS call for a general ban on any use of AI for automated recognition of human features in publicly ... more Unverified source (2021)

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  European Parliament

  EU legislative body

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  MEPs worry that the use of AI systems in policing could potentially lead to mass surveillance, breaching key EU principles of proportionality and necessity. [...] They demand a permanent ban on the use of biometric details like gait, fingerprints, DN... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Ed Markey

  U.S. senator from Massachusetts

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  It stops Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection from using facial recognition and other biometric-surveillance technologies. Period. Unverified source (2026)

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  Birgit Sippel

  German MEP, civil liberties advocate

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  We must demand a ban on the use of biometric surveillance systems. [...] Our EU centralised information systems (SIS, VIS, Eurodac and others) are initially excluded Unverified source (2022)

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  European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

  European Parliament civil liberties committee

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  The committee warns that otherwise legal AI applications could be re-purposed for mass surveillance. [...] Automated recognition-based systems should not be used for border control. Unverified source (2021)

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  Adam Schwartz

  EFF privacy litigation director

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  Privacy advocates have long opposed biometric screening of immigrants. [...] For many reasons, DHS should end its ever-growing biometric border screening program. Unverified source (2017)

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  Tamir Israel

  CIPPIC lawyer; privacy policy expert

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  As the committee has heard, facial recognition technology is versatile and poses an insidious threat to privacy and anonymity, while undermining substantive equality. It demands a societal response that's different and more proactive than that to oth... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Lia Holland

  Fight for the Future campaigns director

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  Facial recognition creates a broad, warrantless hoard of surveillance data that can instantly be weaponized for intimidation and oppression. It has no place in a free society and we will continue to fight to see it banned in every arena: ICE agents s... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Amnesty International

  Human rights NGO

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  AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IS MAKING THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO THE USE OF DATA-INTENSIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES THAT ACCELERATE INEQUALITY FOR REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS: Require businesses involved in developing and providing technologies ... more Unverified source (2024)

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  European Digital Rights (EDRi)

  European digital civil rights network

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  On Wednesday 14 June 2023, the European Parliament voted to ban most public mass surveillance uses of biometric systems. This is the biggest achievement to date for the eighty organisations and quarter of a million people who have supported the Recla... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Anna Bacciarelli

  Human Rights Watch senior researcher

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  We are at a fork in the road regarding states’ approaches to facial recognition surveillance. On the one hand, governments in places like Israel and the United Kingdom are progressing plans to roll out widespread use of this powerful biometric techno... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Matt Mahmoudi

  Amnesty AI and human rights researcher

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  Facial recognition risks being weaponized by law enforcement against marginalized communities around the world. From New Delhi to New York, this invasive technology turns our identities against us and undermines human rights. New Yorkers should be a... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Evan Greer

  Fight for the Future director

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  Facial recognition surveillance should be banned everywhere, but keeping it out of public housing is an excellent start, [...] This type of invasive surveillance technology is often tested on, and disproportionately used to target poor people and peo... more Unverified source (2019)

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  Brian E. Finch

  Heritage Foundation visiting legal fellow

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  Facial recognition systems have generated a significant amount of controversy over their potential to create an unblinking, discriminatory surveillance system across the United States. A closer examination reveals that the best-crafted facial recogni... more Unverified source (2020)

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  Stewart Jackson, Baron Jackson of Peterborough

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  My Lords, I support the excellent amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Swire. I begin with a confession, which I think is shared by most of my colleagues on these Benches, that we were all whipped in 2006 or 2007 in the other place when in ... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Todd Hauptli

  Airport executives association CEO

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  While there are clear economic benefits that accompany these increases in passengers, airport facilities--many of which are decades old--cannot keep pace with current growth. Similarly, our Federal partners at both U.S. Customs and Border Protection ... more Unverified source (2019)

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  Larry Ellison

  Oracle co-founder and chairman

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  Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times [...] AI will report that problem [...] Citizens will be on their best behavior Unverified source (2024)

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  David Pekoske

  Former TSA Administrator

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  eventually we will get to the point where we will require biometrics across the board because it is much more effective and much more efficient. Unverified source (2023)

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  Tom Vandenkendelaere

  Belgian Member of European Parliament

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  Mr President, AI will shape our future. It will change how we work and live, whether it is in health care, agriculture or, yes, law enforcement. The question isn’t whether we like it or not, the question is how Europe will deal with this change. And ... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Hoan Ton-That

  Clearview AI CEO and co-founder

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  Clearview AI is a facial recognition search engine, used by over 3,100 law enforcement agencies around the United States. It works just like Google, but instead of searching words, it searches photos of faces. All the data inside Clearview AI is publ... more Unverified source (2021)

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  U.S. Customs and Border Protection

  U.S. border and customs agency

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  CBP sees biometric technology as the way of the future, [...] proving that it is a vital element of national security and enforcing U.S. immigration laws. Unverified source (2021)

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  Security Industry Association

  Security industry trade association

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  Facial recognition technology makes our country safer and brings value to our everyday lives when used effectively and responsibly. The Security Industry Association (SIA) believes all technology products, including facial recognition technology, mus... more Unverified source (2020)

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  John P. Wagner

  CBP Office of Field Operations

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  as we build out the Congressionally-mandated biometric-based entry/exit system [...] facilitative for international travelers. [...] The use of facial comparison technology simply automates the process Unverified source (2020)

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  Matthew Feeney

  Cato Institute policy analyst

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  Absent regulation and adequate transparency and oversight we should expect more episodes of mass surveillance to emerge. Facial recognition is an ideal technology for mass surveillance. Chinese authorities regularly provide depressing examples of how... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Lindsey Chiswick

  Met Police live facial recognition lead

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  The increase in LFR deployments across crime hotspots in London is driven by its proven impact and success — with more than 1,700 dangerous offenders taken off London’s streets since the start of 2024, including those wanted for rape and child abuse.... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Tim Day

  U.S. Chamber C_TEC senior vice president

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  a ban or moratorium on facial recognition would be premature [...] advocate internationally for responsible use of the technology that protects human rights. Unverified source (2020)

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  Daniel P. Tanciar

  Pangiam Chief Innovation Officer

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  There is no direct legal basis for the air exit program targeting U.S. citizens, as the law establishing it only called for the surveillance of foreign nationals, until former President Trump’s Executive Order to verify the identity of all travelers ... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Don Erickson

  CEO, Security Industry Association

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  SIA represents over 1,000 companies that provide technology solutions vital to bolstering National security, promoting public safety, and protecting information and critical infrastructure. SIA believes all technologies, including facial recognition ... more Unverified source (2022)

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