Facial Recognition Act of 2025
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Title-only: the Facial Recognition Act of 2025 concerns facial recognition technology. No text is provided to describe its specific provisions.
Model-rated AI relevance 80%: Facial recognition is an AI-driven surveillance technology, but there is no text to confirm the bill's scope. (claude-opus-5-5, Oct 22, 2026)
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Ted LieuDemocratCAData as of: bills Oct 22, 2026 · votes Oct 21, 2026 · statements Oct 19, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Jul 23, 2025
Reported by committee
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · July 23, 2025
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
Tlaib introduces a bill to ban federal funding for AI-enabled mass surveillance and facial recognition technologies like Flock cameras.
Source ↗Cortez Masto and Horsford call for worker privacy protections against the sale of employee data to Google for training AI, warning de-identification safeguards may be insufficient.
Source ↗Murray and Wyden criticized the Trump administration's AI-driven Medicare prior authorization pilot for denying seniors care and called for it to end.
Source ↗Reed is seeking legislation to ban AI-enabled personalized price discrimination against consumers.
Source ↗Horsford urges enforceable privacy safeguards before employee data can be sold to train AI systems.
Source ↗Merkley co-introduced the Ban Flock Act to prohibit government use of AI-powered license plate surveillance cameras.
Source ↗Sanders introduced the Ban Flock Act to ban AI-powered surveillance cameras tracking Americans without consent.
Source ↗Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Merkley introduce the Ban Flock Act to prohibit government use of AI-powered surveillance cameras like license plate readers.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-10-22T14:48:01.167Z