Okay with benefit of a little more time—a thread! Today, @YaelBCannon and I published a piece with @BrookingsInst designed primarily to deliver recommendations to folks developing (or maintaining!) appointments platforms on how to do this more equitably. brookings.edu/techstream/how… To get an appointment, you typically need internet access. But 18% of adults making $30k or less don’t use the internet and 29% don’t have smartphones (as compared to 2% and 5% among those who make $75k or more). 41% of people over 65 lack home internet. pewresearch.org/internet/fact-…

Hi friends! Last week on my birthday (!), Illinois Law Review published my first law review article, "A Taxonomy of Police Technology’s Racial Inequity Problems." The article helps to parse the ways in which police technology may aggravate inequity. illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2021… In writing this, I was thinking about the amazing efforts around the country to create new oversight mechanisms for police technology and to require algorithmic impact assessments for algos that make life-critical decisions. (Too many ppl to name here but you know who you are!)

HUGE: Major police body camera vendor @axon_us bans use of face recognition technology on its cams, responding to the recommendation to do so from its ethics board. nytimes.com/2019/06/27/opi… The board noted that face recognition "does not perform as well on people of color compared to whites, on women compared to men, or young people compared to older people."

Must-read story from @jenvalentino about a service that enables law enforcement customers to get real-time location of *any phone in the country* just by typing in a phone number and self-certifying that they have the requisite legal authority. nytimes.com/2018/05/10/tec… The vendor, Securus, requires customers to upload a document (possibly any doc?) and check a box to "certify" it's "an official document" (not a warrant, mind you) "giving permission to look up the location" of the target. Look at this. It would be funny if it weren't horrifying.