House Oversight Face-Scanning Moratorium Discussion Picks Back Up Wednesday
Discussion about a federal moratorium on facial recognition technology remains open, House Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told us Tuesday. “I’m hoping we can work out some legislation with the majority party, but we’ve been working on that…
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for a year.” Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., “is interested, so we’ll see tomorrow. She seems very interested,” Jordan said. Maloney was elected chair after the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who was vocal on face-scanning issues. The committee plans a third hearing on the topic Wednesday. There’s “quite a bit of bipartisan consensus,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told us: Jordan “is actually quite passionate about this issue, as well. I think he’s coming from a very similar perspective trying to protect civil liberties and the right to our own face. It goes beyond government accountability.” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said he supports a moratorium until he’s convinced the technology won’t be used to profile or discriminate, and so far the evidence hasn’t suggested that. National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory Director Charles Romine, Future of Privacy Forum Senior Counsel Brenda Leong, New York University AI Now Institute co-Founder Meredith Whittaker, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Vice President Daniel Castro and Security Industry Association Senior Director-Government Relations Jake Parker will testify. Fight for the Future and Students for Sensible Drug Policy launched a campaign Tuesday to ban facial recognition from university campuses, arguing it decreases “security on campuses, and opens up a pandora’s box of privacy, civil liberties, and equity issues.”