There are concerns that the data is being used to target undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
In a statement, chairman of the house oversight committee, Elijah Cummings said he was worried that these searches were being done without the authorization of either Congress or state legislatures.Meanwhile Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, the House Oversight Committee's ranking Republican, said that no citizen getting their driver's license would have known that their personal details could be used for surveillance purposes.
The FBI has good links with the DMV, whose databases it has used to carry out more than 390,000 facial recognition searches since 2011,The paper said that public records requests of internal documents and emails over the past five years also highlight the discrepancy between state and federal laws over the push to find and deport undocumented migrants.
Clare Garvie, a senior associate with Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, described it as an"insane breach of trust" for the state to encourage undocumented migrants to provide their details"then turn around and allow ICE access to that."
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