Government use of biometric and personal identifiable information can be valuable tools only if utilized properly. Unfortunately, this is the second major privacy breach at DHS this year. We must ensure we are not expanding the use of…

This is unacceptable. It is not fair to expect certain people in our society to shoulder a disproportionate burden of the technology's shortcoming.

The public has no input in this process, as far as we understand.

On behalf of the International Biometrics + Identity Association, I am writing to express our gratitude for your support over the past decade for the use of biometrics by DHS.

I am not opposed to biometric technology and recognize it can be valuable to Homeland Security in facilitation.

The American people deserve answers to those questions before the Federal Government rushes to deploy biometrics further.

On behalf of the Security Industry Association (SIA), thank you for holding a hearing on facial recognition technology.

I hope we will vote later on today to advance the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act. Members who have been around here a long time realize what a bipartisan tradition this has been for the Senate. Those listening to us should…

This is why I am offering an amendment to the State Department Authorization Act which would create a category of leave for R&R breaks.

The energy security of our partners, particularly our NATO partners, is essential to our security as well as theirs.

How to effectively counter the serious potential adverse impact of terror content and misinformation is certainly a complex problem.

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. An objection is heard. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.

We want to understand how companies can strengthen their efforts to deal with this persistent problem.

Democrats respect the free-speech rights enshrined in the First Amendment.

I want to be very clear: Democrats respect the free-speech rights enshrined in the First Amendment.

But after a white supremacist terrorist was able to exploit social media platforms in this way, we all have reason to doubt the effectiveness of the GIFCT and the companies' efforts more broadly.

We have seen time and time again that social media platforms are vulnerable to being exploited by bad actors.

The fact that this happened nearly 2 years after Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and other major tech companies established the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, pronounced 'GIF-C-T,' is troubling to say the least.