NEW: Our analysis suggests that CA's equity algorithm may leave millions of needy Californians without additional vaccines because of one choice: using ZIP codes rather than census tracts to allocate additional vaccine.

Details on our blog. Also, a 🧵.

aclunc.org/blog/californi… We wanted to understand concretely how the state's use of an algorithm to distribute vaccines would translate into actual outcomes for people where they live. People have a right to know exactly how algorithms deployed as part of public policy operate. 2/

BREAKING: The ACLU of California @ACLU_NorCal @ACLU_SoCal @sdACLU is OPPOSING Prop 24, the ballot initiative relating to consumer privacy.

In November, Californians should vote #NoOnProp24.

Let's talk about why. Prop 24 doubles down on the harmful idea that people should carry the burden of protecting their own privacy by filling out a bunch of forms and hoping companies do as they ask.

Prop 24 isn't privacy protection, it's privacy paperwork.

THREAD: @ACLU_NorCal tested Amazon’s facial recognition product Rekognition and it falsely matched 28 Members of Congress with mugshot photos. Here’s how we did it and what we found. aclu.org/blog/privacy-t… 1/ First we loaded 25,000 public arrest photos into Rekognition. Then asked Rekognition to compare the faces of current members of Congress against those mugshot photos at Amazon's default match setting. The results were striking. 2/