U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) published a letter to the U.S. labor secretary on Feb. 15 arguing against the outsourcing of facial recognition and identity verification for unemployment insurance benefits to the private sector.
The Senators argued outsourcing unemployment identity verification processes potentially created privacy risks for claimants.
The group of Senators argued the U.S. Department of Labor and the General Services Administration should develop alternative methods for unemployment insurance claimants to verify their identities through the government.
