Federal agencies plan broad facial-recognition expansion
Eighteen of 24 surveyed U.S. federal agencies reported using facial recognition, while ten planned to expand their use through fiscal 2023, mostly through new systems.
TOWARD DOOM42confidence 89/100
Why it moved the index
The GAO-backed finding documents broad consequential government identification and surveillance deployment plus planned expansion. Specialized system scope and the mix of uses bound the magnitude.
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- R1Toward 42 · confidence 89
New August 2021 government-deployment event verified by exact-time Axios reporting and GAO-21-526; no durable title, URL, or substantially identical event collision.
12 Aug 2026