ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People’s Faces to Check If They’re Citizens
(Futurism, Oct 30, 2025)
Federal agents are increasingly using facial recognition as the go-to tool to sort the citizens from the migrants. The dystopian practice is in keeping with comments made by ICE’s acting director Todd Lyons earlier this year, when he said he imagines deportations running like “[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”
When Having Your Face ‘Recognized’ Is a Treacherous Liability
(Huff Post, Oct 30, 2025)
In America, where racial and gender bias pervade the deepest parts of the nation’s criminal justice and carceral systems, AI-assisted facial recognition presents an existential threat to the privacy and safety of darker-skinned people and immigrants, especially.
Why One California Firm Invested Thousands in Attorney Wellness and Biometric Screening
(LAW.com, Oct 30, 2025)
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp tested an employee wellness program with 20 lawyers, and is planning to expand it. The program utilizes biometric screening from a startup called Viome to identify health risks.
California Seeks Input on Bill Applying Age Assurance Rules to Social Media
(Biometric Update, Oct 30, 2025)
The law’s name is self-explanatory, in that it aims to limit addictive features targeting kids on social media and other online platforms. The system design features in question “increase, sustain, or extend use of the online product, service, or feature by children, including the automatic playing of media, rewards for time spent and notifications.”
[Video] Dallas Love Field Debuts Facial Recognition eGates Ahead of Holiday Rush
(NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Oct 30, 2025)
With holiday travel expected to spike, Dallas Love Field is the first airport in Texas to install CLEAR’s new biometric eGates. The high-tech lanes aim to move travelers through security in seconds using facial recognition. NBC 5’s Alicia Barrera has the latest.
