Congressional Democratic leaders have just come across a classic tech Paradox. Lawmakers want the footage for accountability, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis, but privacy advocates are screaming that ICE body cameras will just provide another avenue to track and identify protesters.
Democrats, who made the universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are now scrambling to put limits on how the resulting footage can be used. Legal observers and lawmakers have already accused ICE of leveraging various types of cameras to surveil protesters, through license plate readers and facial recognition programs.
