Realigning Mobile Phone Biometrics for American Privacy Protection Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Homeland Security, within 30 days of the law taking effect, to set standards and guidelines limiting the Mobile Fortify and Mobile Identify facial recognition phone apps, and any successor apps, to identification at ports of entry. The Department could not share these apps with other federal, state, local, Tribal, or territorial agencies. The apps would have to be removed from Department technology except for port-of-entry use, and made inoperable on non-Department devices. Images, photographs, or fingerprints of U.S. citizens already captured with the apps would have to be destroyed immediately, and those captured at ports of entry would have to be destroyed within 12 hours.

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Sponsors

• Bennie G. Thompson Democrat sponsor
• 5 cosponsors