https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/08/feds-sued-over-lack-of-transparency-about-facial-recognition/

Facial recognition technology concerns public advocacy groups, policymakers and others so much that its use by police and other public agencies has been banned in three Bay Area cities and one in Massachusetts. But federal government agencies use it, and they’re not being forthcoming about how, according to a couple of lawsuits filed in the past couple of weeks.

The Project on Government Oversight sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thursday over what it says is the agency’s inadequate response to the group’s request for information about its use of facial recognition. That follows a lawsuit filed by the ACLU last week against the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration over the same thing. Both groups submitted Freedom of Information Act requests because they want to know how the federal agencies are using the technology, and what safeguards they’re employing to prevent abuse.