Fight endorses ICE Out of Our Faces Act

The following statement on Senator Markey’s 2026 ICE Out of Our Faces Act can be attributed to Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns & Communications Director at Fight for the Future:

“For a decade we have been warning legislators that facial recognition AI is a dangerous technology that is fundamentally incompatible with human rights. Whether facial recognition is directly in the hands of ICE, or being run on Flock cameras at a Lowes Home Improvement Center that feed to ICE, or being used by a local government office that (wittingly or not) shares data with ICE—the end result is the same: databases of everyone’s identity, movements, and affiliations that can span years.

Facial recognition creates a broad, warrantless hoard of surveillance data that can instantly be weaponized for intimidation and oppression. It has no place in a free society and we will continue to fight to see it banned in every arena: ICE agents should be banned from using it; city and state governments including law enforcement should be banned from using it; and businesses should be banned from using it in all places of public accommodation. We cannot let this regime of data-supercharged fascist witness intimidation become the new normal. It is time to ban facial recognition for good and banning ICE from using it is a great start.”