This surveillance technology is disproportionately inaccurate, is targeted at already overpoliced communities and is a threat to our privacy and civil liberties.

Neema Singh Guliani, senior legislative counsel at the ACLU, speaking on police use of facial recognition technology. The ACLU is one of 40 civil rights, privacy and technology groups that composed a letter to members of Congress, advocating for a federal ban of facial recognition technology. (The Hill — July 2, 2020)