OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years and 2020

Floor Speech

Date: July 16, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Technology and Communication Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

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Mr. GARCIA of Illinois. Madam Chair, I rise in support of the amendment we have filed to study and limit the use of facial recognition technology.

The intelligence community collects large amounts of data with limited oversight about how and from whom data is collected. Facial recognition technology has shown to be less accurate on nonwhite faces, and its use disproportionately hurts communities of color because of algorithmic bias.

This amendment studies the potential for bias and expresses the sense that people should not be targeted for their ethnicity, race, or sexual orientation, or to suppress dissent. Given the U.S. Government's history of tracking protesters and activists, especially in minority communities, this is important.

Congress can and should exercise Federal oversight of emerging surveillance technologies. For facial recognition technology, this means our work is only just beginning. I urge support for this amendment.

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