Bill > HR7124

This bill, titled the "Realigning Mobile Phone Biometrics for American Privacy Protection Act," aims to restrict the use of certain mobile phone applications by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components, specifically prohibiting their use for facial recognition outside of official ports of entry, which are the locations where individuals enter the United States. Within 30 days of the bill's enactment, the Secretary of Homeland Security must establish rules that prevent the use of applications like "Mobile Fortify" and "Mobile Identify," or any future versions, for identification purposes anywhere other than at ports of entry. Furthermore, DHS is forbidden from sharing these applications with any other federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial government agencies, and must remove them from its own systems, except for their authorized use at ports of entry. The bill also mandates that DHS remotely disable any such applications found on non-DHS devices and requires the immediate deletion of any biometric data, such as images, photographs, or fingerprints, collected by these applications from U.S. citizens before the new rules are in place, unless the data was collected at a port of entry, in which case it must be destroyed within 12 hours of collection.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7124/all-info