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Realigning Mobile Phone Biometrics for American Privacy Protection Act

To prohibit the use of facial recognition mobile phone applications outside ports of entry, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jan 15, 2026

Latest action (Jan 16, 2026) Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.

Referred to
Homeland Security Committee
Policy area
Immigration
Issues
ImmigrationTechnology & Privacy

Summary
  • Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop standards and guidelines within 30 days prohibiting the use of facial recognition mobile applications (Mobile Fortify, Mobile Identify, and successors) except for identification purposes at ports of entry.
  • Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from sharing these facial recognition applications with other federal agencies or state, local, tribal, or territorial agencies.
  • Requires removal of these applications from Department IT systems and requires the Department to remotely disable any such applications on non-Department devices.
  • Requires immediate destruction of images, photographs, and fingerprints of U.S. citizens captured through these applications before the standards and guidelines are implemented.
  • Requires destruction of images, photographs, and fingerprints captured for port of entry identification within 12 hours of capture.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
5 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Bennie G. Thompson’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • JAMES GROUP INTERNATIONAL $8,170
  • HUNTER HOMES AND SHELTER $6,600
  • ERGON, INC. $6,600
  • FARMER & ASSOCIATES $5,800
  • WATKINS & EAGER PLLC $5,500

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Bennie G. Thompson → · Outside spending →

Actions (3)
  1. Jan 16, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement. · house
  2. Jan 15, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security. · house
  3. Jan 15, 2026 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 3779 — ICE Out of Our Faces Act · Introduced Feb 4, 2026 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 7363 — ICE Out of Our Faces Act · Introduced Feb 5, 2026 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 8371 — Reform Immigration Through Biometrics Act · Introduced Apr 21, 2026 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 3693 — To prohibit the Federal Government from establishing or maintaining a database that contains data collected through, or facilitates, the biometric identity verification of a citizen of the United States, and for other purposes. · Introduced Jun 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 9800 — Protection Against Mass Surveillance Act · Introduced Jul 21, 2026 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 3782 — To prohibit the Federal Government from using facial recognition technology as a means of identity verification, and for other purposes. · Introduced Jun 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 15, 2026

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 15, 2026

Mr. Thompson of Mississippi (for himself, Mr. Correa, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Meng, and Mr. Espaillat) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

A BILL

To prohibit the use of facial recognition mobile phone applications outside ports of entry, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Realigning Mobile Phone Biometrics for American Privacy Protection Act”.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION MOBILE PHONE APPLICATIONS OUTSIDE PORTS OF ENTRY.

Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall develop standards and guidelines for the Department of Homeland Security and its components—

(1) prohibiting the use of the Mobile Fortify Mobile Application, Mobile Identify Mobile Application, or successor applications, except for identification purposes at ports of entry;

(2) prohibiting the Department and its components from sharing the Mobile Fortify Mobile Application, Mobile Identify Mobile Application, or successor applications with any other Federal agency or any State, local, Tribal, or territorial agency;

(3) requiring—

(A) the removal of the Mobile Fortify Mobile Application, Mobile Identify Mobile Application, or any successor applications from Department and component information technology, except as necessary for identification purposes at ports of entry, in accordance with paragraph (1); and

(B) the Department to remotely render inoperable any such applications downloaded on non-Department information technology;

(4) except as provided in paragraph (5), requiring the immediate destruction of any image, photograph, or fingerprint of any United States citizen captured through the use of the Mobile Fortify Mobile Application, Mobile Identify Mobile Application, any successor applications before such standards and guidelines are implemented, wherever such image, photograph, or fingerprint may be stored; and

(5) requiring the destruction of any image, photograph, or fingerprint of a United States citizen captured through the use of the Mobile Fortify Mobile Application, Mobile Identify Mobile Application, or successor applications for identification purposes at ports of entry pursuant to paragraph

(1) not later than 12 hours after such image, photograph, or fingerprint is captured. <all>

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