The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Washington) joined a coalition of more than 40 organizations calling on President Biden to take executive action imposing a federal moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology.    

The letter, sent by CAIR-Washington, the ACLU, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Amnesty International, among others, urges the Biden administration to take three critical steps addressing the use of facial recognition technology by the government.   

Those steps include: 

• placing a moratorium on all federal government use of facial recognition technology and other forms of biometric technology; Source: cairwa.org