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Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | November 26, 2025

Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld Face Recognition Program

A coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down the use of Mobile Fortify, release the agency's privacy analyses of the app, and clarify the agency's policy on face recognition.
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Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | August 8, 2024

Weak "Guardrails" on Police Face Recognition Use Make Things Worse

Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and other marginalized communities. That's why EFF supports a ban on government FRT use. Half-measures aren't up to the task.However, even as half-measures go, California's legislature is...

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Deeplinks Blog by Tori Noble | July 15, 2024

Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition Technology

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology. Robert Williams, a Black resident of a Detroit suburb, filed...

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Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 17, 2024

California’s Facial Recognition Bill Is Not the Solution We Need

California Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced A.B. 1814, a bill that would supposedly regulate police use of facial recognition technology. The problem is that it would do little to actually change the status quo of how police use this invasive and problematic technology. Police use of facial recognition...

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Deeplinks Blog by Paige Collings, Matthew Guariglia | March 22, 2024

Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas

In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force in California recently employed the...

The angular outline of three faces as a computer might see them, colored like a rainbow
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley, India McKinney, Matthew Guariglia | February 9, 2022

Victory! ID.me to Drop Facial Recognition Requirement for Government Services

First, the Internal Revenue Service reversed course from its recent announcement that it was partnering with ID.me, a third-party identity verification service, to use facial recognition for verification of users managing many aspects of their taxes online. Now, ID.me—which provides identity verification services for dozens of government agencies—says...

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