DHS Surveillance Technology Moratorium Act of 2026

This bill would bar the Department of Homeland Security from using its funds to award, renew, extend, or expand contracts for surveillance and data analytics technologies used to identify, locate, or track people or support immigration enforcement, such as facial recognition, social media monitoring, and cellphone location tracking. Existing contracts would not have to end right away. The department's Inspector General would have to audit these technologies within 180 days, and the Secretary would then have to publish a public report listing the technologies, contractors, data sources, and data-sharing practices. The pause would end only after the audit, the public report, and 90 days after a further report to Congress, and the Secretary could waive the pause for specific threats to life, public safety, or national security. After the pause ends, the department would have to publish yearly reports on its use of these technologies.

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Sponsors

• Daniel S. Goldman Democrat sponsor
• 8 cosponsors