U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been permitted to run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland driver’s license photos without first seeking state or court approval, state officials said — access that goes far beyond what other states allow and that alarms immigration activists in a state that grants special driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.
More than 275,000 such licenses have been issued statewide since 2013, when the state became the first on the East Coast to defy federal guidelines and allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a license without having to provide proof of legal status. The technology now under scrutiny could let an ICE official run a photograph of an unknown person through the system and see if any potentially undocumented immigrants are returned as a match.
“It’s a betrayal of immigrants’ trust for the [state] to turn around and let ICE run warrantless searches on their faces,” said Harrison Rudolph, a senior associate at Georgetown University Law School’s Center on Privacy and Technology. “It’s a bait-and-switch. … ICE is using biometric information in the shadows, without government notice or public approval, to hunt down the most vulnerable people.”
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9 comments:
Unreal.
Are Democrats on the list ???
Guess what?
All you "I don't do anything wrong" people are going to get the screws turned on you, too, no matter what "right or wrong" YOU think you have done.
THAT is the blowback for cheering the disintegration of EVERYONE'S rights.
And, indicator of just how shortsighted and totally stupid you are.
Further, don't believe for a second that this is all they do or plan to do.
Keep cheering.
Why are you surprised?? I knew this was the ultimate goal of giving everybody drivers license. It was obvious (to me at least)..
One cannot claim privacy for one's facial image once they put that face in public.
Is this the shadow government that Trumpers are suspicions of?
So it really exists under Trump ?
1:29...how disingenuous can you be??
You are giving it your best, cheerleader.
Anonymously, of course.
Ahhhhh, no speaka English
Northwest Woodsman: Vulnerable people my butt! These people are ILLEGAL ALIENS and have committed at the very least, the crime of entering our country without authorization and probably other crimes in their home country. These are not the best and brightest so why add the burden to our citizens who already have to support fellow countrymen who also demonstrate problems. I’m so tired of this nonsense!
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