Realigning Mobile Phone Biometrics for American Privacy Protection Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 6
- Latest action
- Jan 16, 2026
What it does
The Realigning Mobile Phone Biometrics for American Privacy Protection Act would prohibit the use of specific facial recognition mobile applications—Mobile Fortify and Mobile Identify—outside U.S. ports of entry, restricting their use solely to identification at those locations. It requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop standards within 30 days of enactment that ban sharing these apps with other federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial agencies, mandate their removal from Department of Homeland Security IT systems (except at ports of entry), and require remote deactivation of the apps on non-government devices. The bill also requires the immediate destruction of…
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