Civil Rights Groups Urge 2020 Election Winners to Stop 'High-Tech Profiling'
The NAACP, National Hispanic Media Coalition, American Civil Liberties Union and more than 20 other civil rights groups urged any winners of the 2020 election to enact “proper safeguards” to ensure surveillance programs don’t engage in “high-tech profiling.” That's among…
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other tech polices “to ensure that technology is designed and used in ways that respect civil rights, preserve privacy, ensure transparency and hold both nation-states and companies accountable for harm.” In “some cases, surveillance technologies should simply never be deployed,” the groups said Wednesday. “In other cases, clear limitations and robust auditing mechanisms are needed to ensure that these tools are used in a responsible and equitable way.” They want to prevent automated technologies from replicating and amplifying “patterns of discrimination in society. These tools must be judged ... by their impacts -- especially on communities that have been historically marginalized.” They want “constitutional principles such as equal protection and due process” to “keep pace with government use of technology,” including ensuring that governments don’t “compel companies to build technologies that undermine basic rights, including freedom of expression, privacy and freedom of association.” Deploy technologies “in close consultation with the most affected communities, especially those who have historically suffered the harms of discrimination,” the groups said. They want “clear baseline protections for data collection.”