WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 31, 2020 - On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on Fascist Police States of Amerika government use of facial recognition technology.
The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and signed by organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Color of Change, Fight for the Future, Popular Resistance, and the Consumer Federation of Amerika. The letter calls on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to “recommend to the president and the Secretary of Homeland Security the suspension of facial recognition systems,
pending further review.“