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THREAD: I'll be following along with the House Judiciary Committee hearing on #facialrecognition today: judiciary.house.gov/calendar/event…
Will be on the lookout for lawmakers parroting talking points fed to them by tech industry lobbyists and law enforcement shills. #BanFacialRecognition
Will be on the lookout for lawmakers parroting talking points fed to them by tech industry lobbyists and law enforcement shills. #BanFacialRecognition
Only a few minutes into the hearing and we've already heard a ton of excuses for why lawmakers aren't just moving quickly to ban this technology. The language they're using around "oversight" & "regulatory frameworks" fed to them directly from tech lobbyists opposing moratorium
Good to hear @RepJerryNadler acknowledge the harm of private use of facial recognition as well as government / law enforcement use. @fightfortheftr supports a ban on the vast majority of private use of facial recognition: fightforthefuture.org/news/2021-03-1…
Monitoring @HouseJudiciary hearing on @FBI oversight. Sole witness: Director Wray. Chair @JerryNadler sets 4 priorities: Risk of Russian interference in 2020 elections; failings in FISA app process; investigating white supremacists; & FBI efforts in Kavanaugh nomination process.
@HouseJudiciary @FBI @JerryNadler No mention of key FBI role in surveilling domestic dissent. @RepJerryNadler, @RepJayapal, we need you to hold FBI accountable for their unlawful spying on activists, incl. POC, immigrant advocates & surveillance reform groups. #ProtectBlackDissent #HouseJudiciary #BIE #IronFist
@HouseJudiciary @FBI @JerryNadler @RepJerryNadler @RepJayapal First mention of #ChurchCommittee and FBI surveillance of MLK comes from GOP Ranking Member @RepDougCollins. He supports renewal of #PatriotAct powers and emphasizes belief that FBI was biased against Trump campaign.
#electionsecurity #HouseJudiciary Though @CISAgov has deployed ALBERT detectors on election infrastructure in all 50 states, this does NOT mean all election infrastructure is monitored by ALBERT sensors. Most of these sensors are deployed only on state-level voter reg...
...databases & election reporting night systems, with only a small fraction deployed on county networks, where elections are run and where votes machines are programmed, maintained and managed. This means most of our 9000+ election jurisdictions don't...
...have such sensors and don't provide the DHS or IC visibility into those systems.
