ICE has been doing this for years?
When is the ATF going to get with the times and adopt this tech?
Making states that are purple more blue.
Once upon a time people would be alarmed about government intrusions. Not now it seems.
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While we are just learning about it, it didn’t just start under Trump.
Just think about how you feel if your’e a small government person or a Christian these days.
Oh please, the feds could always look at your drivers license, they could under Obama, and they could under Bill Clinton.
You don’t understand what small government means apparently. It does not mean no federal government and it doesn’t mean no enforcement of federal immigration law, never has, never will.
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Centgov can be trusted not to abuse this technology. If you’re a law abiding citizen what are you worried about?
Sounds like the states who view this as a problem just need to pass legislation or regulatinos requiring a court order before looking at the photos… Just like the state of Washington has done…
It appears that some people aren’t particularly worried about the implications of this. If you feel like wading through it, here’s a book that discusses it. This is not just doing computer searches.
And I’m posting a few more links, starting here.
Cities in America are wary of using FCT and are putting a stop to it because of its invasiveness. San Francisco is the first city to ban it.
And for those who dismiss the concerns (that, as I pointed out in the OP go across party lines) this graf from the link below tells it:
Skeptics of the government’s use of the technology – a coalition that includes civil liberties and civil rights activists and some leading tech companies – warn that it can provide authorities with unprecedented access to the daily lives of every person in the U.S., opening the door to a litany of privacy violations that could erode freedoms and raise the specter of constant surveillance.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/451787-cities-lead-crackdown-on-facial-recognition-tech
More problems in Detroit:
And one more:
Well… things aren’t exactly that clean.
"… Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations.
Since 2012, ICE has released from its custody more than 1,480 people after investigating their citizenship claims, according to agency figures. And a Times review of Department of Justice records and interviews with immigration attorneys uncovered hundreds of additional cases in the country’s immigration courts in which people were forced to prove they are Americans and sometimes spent months or even years in detention.
Victims include a landscaper snatched in a Home Depot parking lot in Rialto and held for days despite his son’s attempts to show agents the man’s U.S. passport; a New York resident locked up for more than three years fighting deportation efforts after a federal agent mistook his father for someone who wasn’t a U.S. citizen; and a Rhode Island housekeeper mistakenly targeted twice, resulting in her spending a night in prison the second time even though her husband had brought her U.S. passport to a court hearing. …"
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Let freedom ring. 
Where did you find that? That no information pertaining to legal US citizens is being used?
If you’ve seen the interviews lately with former Border Patrol agent Jenn Budd, she says the agency is fraught with corruption.
Like the rest of law enforcement? You don’t say.
I can’t keep track anymore. Is the central government’s FBI and CIA corrupt or not?
