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Oversight and pushbackFeb 5, 2026

"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" (S.3779) introduced

verifiedcarried forward

Markey, Merkley, and Wyden in the Senate, Jayapal in the House. Would ban ICE and CBP from acquiring or using face recognition and other biometric identification; require deletion within 30 days of biometric data already collected; and create a private right of action plus state attorney general civil-penalty authority. EPIC endorsed.

How we know: Carried forward, not re-checked in v3.28.

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  1. 01Markey, Merkley, Jayapal press releasesprimarylink being reconstructed
  2. 02Congress.gov S.3779primarylink being reconstructed
  3. 03EPIClink being reconstructed

Machine-readable: /api/v1/claims/ice-out-of-our-faces.json