ACLU, Other Groups Ask Biden for Federal Moratorium on Face Scanning

President Joe Biden should take executive action to impose a federal moratorium on face scanning and other forms of biometric technology, wrote the American Civil Liberties Union and more than 40 organizations Wednesday. He should block states and local governments from using federal funds on the technology and support legislation codifying a federal moratorium, the ACLU wrote with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amnesty International and others. The technology “disproportionately misidentifies people of color, women, trans people, and other marginalized groups, but its ability to track our movements across space and time would be dangerous even if it worked perfectly,” said ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Kate Ruane. The White House didn’t comment.