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🚨Protect Children’s Biometric Data🚨
A few people asked me for the actual documentation showing biometric data is collected when you open a Trump Account for your kid. Sharing here so you can see it for yourself, because the paperwork is more damning than any summary of it.
Robinhood’s own privacy statement admits it, in writing. The Trump Accounts Privacy Statement on trumpaccount.com says, verbatim:
“Biometric Data: We extract facial geometry data from selfies/photographs/videos to verify your identity and detect/prevent fraud.”
That sentence sits inside a section describing information collected about “the Responsible Party and the Account Beneficiary.” The Responsible Party is the parent. The Account Beneficiary, for the record, is the kid.
Treasury’s own privacy assessment confirms selfie collection- and then DENIES using AI in the same document. The Trump Accounts Privacy and Civil Liberties Impact Assessment, signed by Treasury on May 18, 2026, contains two checkboxes that cannot both be true.
Section 4, titled “Biometrics / Distinguishing Features / Characteristics of Individuals,” has this box checked:
☒ “Photos/Video: Selfie images collected for identity verification through third-party identity verification services”
Meanwhile Section 2, “Artificial Intelligence,” has this box checked on page 3:
☒ “None of the above. This information system does not utilize AI.”
The clever part is that the AI usage denied in Section 2ONLY accounts for everything above Section 2 (so, AI is not used in any of Section 1).
HOWEVER the biometric collection isn’t acknowledged until Section 4. It’s brilliant and evil.
To top it all off, facial-geometry extraction (measuring the distances between features on a face to produce a mathematical identifier) is definitionally an AI/ML process under the statutory definition of AI that Treasury itself cites in the same document, 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3):
“…a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions.”
That is exactly what a face-geometry algorithm does when it decides whether the selfie matches the ID.
So either Robinhood’s privacy statement is wrong about what its vendors do, or Treasury’s checkbox is wrong about whether AI is being used. One of these documents is not telling the truth. Both of them were signed by people whose job is to tell it.
I know that’s a lot to hold in your head at once, but that’s the point. The confusion isn’t a side effect of how this demonstrous thing was built.
Full video/breakdown on Trump Accounts (and the role National Design Studio plays in it) coming very, very soon.
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SOURCES CITED:
trumpaccount.com/us/en/…home.treasury.gov/syste…law.cornell.edu/uscode/…
