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

Data security is another important concern. Frankly, the Federal Government does not have a great track record securing Americans' personal data.

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

biometric technology holds tremendous promise in enhancing security and efficiency in the aviation environment.

The Honorable Bennie Thompson, Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security, 310 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515.

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.

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

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…

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

At a fundamental level, today's hearing is about transparency.

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

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

Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the victims and their families.

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

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.

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.

As a former mayor myself, I understand the problems cities have, and mayors more specifically.

Congress has a responsibility not only to track the progression of these emerging technological breakthroughs, but to understand how they affect our security.

We are witnessing a new technological age with Artificial Intelligence or 'AI.'

But our challenge is, do we set parameters of guidelines with the money so that at the end of the day we can measure how successful the goal has become?

I know recognize the Chairman of the full committee, Mr. Thompson, for 5 minutes.

Technology such as Artificial Intelligence is one tool social media companies use to help identify, monitor, and remove such terrorist content.

In March, a white supremacist terrorist in Christchurch, New Zealand, exploited social media platforms to live-stream violent images across the world--millions of times over.

These bad actors range from unaffiliated cyber criminals to sophisticated state actors--including Iran--and their interest in breaching State and local networks is only growing.