Image Recognition
The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2023 would prohibit federal agencies from using facial recognition as well as biometric technology, including "voice recognition, gate recognition, and recognition of other immutable physical characteristics," according to Markey. The continued proliferation of surveillance tools like facial recognition technologies in our society is deeply disturbing," said Markey. An intelligence agency used facial recognition technology to match Sawyer to CCTV footage from the bus. Sawyer was just the latest Black American man to be arrested after being misidentified using facial recognition technology. Those wrongful arrests are "why I have long called on government to halt the deployment of facial recognition technology," said Jayapal.