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Schona Jolly QC
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Today San Francisco banned facial recognition technology. It will not be allowed to be used by local agencies, like the transport authority, or law enforcement.

Britain needs a serious debate about #AI #tech #humanrights #discrimination. Instead, we’re still talking Brexit.
Here’s a piece on that ban: San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition #AI #tech #humanrights #discrimination bbc.com/news/technolog…
Meanwhile @geoffwhite247 reports on 3 missed opportunities to assess the dangers of BAME people being falsely identified & facing questioning because police have failed to test how well their systems deal with non-white faces. #AI #discrimination bbc.com/news/technolog…
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Schona Jolly QC
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The Prime Minister’s speech is all the more painful today because she has literally done or pledged the exact opposite of so many of these messages over her Brexit premiership. She has wasted time & goodwill. gov.uk/government/spe…
Take this early passage of her speech today.

It is literally the opposite of “Brexit means Brexit”.

It’s a tanker-sized reverse gear on that “red, white, blue Brexit”.

Every time she said she wanted to “deliver Brexit”, she failed to add these important qualifiers.
Today’s speech still features the “over 80% of the electorate backed parties which stood to deliver Brexit by leaving with a deal.”

She knows that, whatever the technical reality of that statement, it’s not a real or substantive reflection.

Why does she persist, knowing this?
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Schona Jolly QC
@WomaninHavana
The road we travel at this moment in time is precarious. We ignore the flashing warning signs at our peril.

Would that Britain had leaders of our main two parties that would rise to this grave challenge.

Cowering, hiding in a different moment of time, May & Corbyn fail us all.
I’ve watched quietly these last days, willing @UKLabour to seize the reality & gravity of the moment. Some of its MEPs, like @SebDance, are amongst the finest & most principled supporters of Remain.

Europe needs thse strong voices to counter to the forces working against it.
But even as Watson, Starmer and other Labour MPs understand what needs to be done and why we need to remain a strong voice in Europe, the leadership continues to look both ways, trapped in an out-dated ideology. The far right is shouting in the leadership’s ear without impact.
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Schona Jolly QC
@WomaninHavana
⁦The frightening state of Brexit Britain:

“It can’t be right that one of the consequences of me being the mayor of London & a Muslim in public life is that I have police protection. Is that the price you should have to pay?” ⁦@SadiqKhan⁩

thetimes.co.uk/article/e6bc76…
Sadiq Khan never received an apology from the dog-whistle campaign run by @ZacGoldsmith, but credit to Khan for saying publicly now what many of us have said since. It wasn’t just Goldsmith. The racism came from the very highest levels.
I’ll add: We shouldn’t be going backwards as a society. We shouldn’t be scared for our elderly parents or our children on the streets because of race. We shouldn’t be shy about our rich identities, to speak other languages on our streets.

Language matters. In politics even more.
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Just a few points from my interview on facial recognition because of constant mis-characterization of my arguments and also a total denigration of my views as if I'm some tinfoil-wearing hermit.
1. The idea that just because the UK has good intentions regarding their facial recognition does not mean it won't be abused. History has proven that emerging technologies are consistently abused by law enforcement agencies.
2. That China's use of facial recognition has no baring on how it will be used in Western countries is again beyond foolish, considering the UK's GCHQ has abused their surveillance power just like China has.
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