Last year, the ACLU sued the FBI, the Department of Justice and other agencies that contract with facial recognition providers to block its use.
Former 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro called the use of facial recognition software for mass surveillance a “dangerous violation of human rights” in a tweet Tuesday. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) echoed the sentiment, noting in a tweet that he and other members of Congress were misidentified by Amazon facial recognition software in 2018.
“This tech needs legislative guardrails NOW,” Gomez wrote in the tweet.
