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Edward Markey: “ICE agents are using facial recognition technologies, which…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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That's why I've introduced legislation to prohibit the ICE agents from using facial recognition technologies, which is what they are doing as they move into settings where they're picking up the actual identity of innocent people with their facial recognition technologies, which these ICE agents are using facial recognition technologies, which is a per se constitutional violation of the privacy rights. So what, what they're doing is draconian. It's dangerous. It's, it's, it's surveillance at a level that led to the colonists 250 years ago on the streets of Massachusetts rising up against King George. (19:48–20:10)

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Asserts that ICE agents' use of facial recognition violates constitutional privacy rights.

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