The House Oversight Committee plans a third hearing on facial recognition technology in about six weeks to ensure the FBI is using the tool properly, Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday. Lawmakers hammered an FBI official during a hearing, in which a GAO official outlined agency privacy and transparency failures for the technology. A federal moratorium on the technology remains on the table (see 1905220058). Cummings, numerous Democrats, ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., are exploring legislation.
The House Oversight Committee plans a third hearing on facial recognition technology in about six weeks to ensure the FBI is using the tool properly, Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday. Lawmakers hammered an FBI official during a hearing, in which a GAO official outlined agency privacy and transparency failures for the technology. A federal moratorium on the technology remains on the table (see 1905220058). Cummings, numerous Democrats, ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., are exploring legislation.
While questions have come from its own eighth floor and from the Commerce Department about the role the FCC should take in orbital debris oversight, space experts tell us it's not clear who, if anyone, could fill the agency's role. Also last week, Commissioner Brendan Carr noted his hopes (see 1905090031) the agency gets input from expert agencies like NASA. He called this literally "rocket science," speaking on C-SPAN's The Communicators. Who should be the orbital debris czar "is the central question of the entire space traffic management debate," said Secure World Foundation technical adviser Brian Weeden. He was among the experts we interviewed.
There’s bipartisan agreement among members of the House Oversight Committee to halt federal law enforcement and government use of facial recognition technology until civil liberty concerns are addressed. Chairman Elijah Cummings, R-Md., ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and various members of both parties signaled support for a moratorium at Wednesday’s hearing.
There’s bipartisan agreement among members of the House Oversight Committee to halt federal law enforcement and government use of facial recognition technology until civil liberty concerns are addressed. Chairman Elijah Cummings, R-Md., ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and various members of both parties signaled support for a moratorium at Wednesday’s hearing.
Google Assistant is now available on Bose Home Speaker 500 and its 500 and 700 sound bars, blogged Google Tuesday. Users can ask Google Assistant to play a favorite part of a song, pause a favorite show on a Chromecast-enabled TV or dim lights before a movie starts, it said. Customers who already own the speakers will receive an automatic software update introducing Google Assistant as a voice assistant option, said Anurag Jain, product manager, Google Assistant. Guided setup is available in the voice setting section of the Bose Music app.
Google Assistant is now available on Bose Home Speaker 500 and its 500 and 700 sound bars, blogged Google Tuesday. Users can ask Google Assistant to play a favorite part of a song, pause a favorite show on a Chromecast-enabled TV or dim lights before a movie starts, it said. Customers who already own the speakers will receive an automatic software update introducing Google Assistant as a voice assistant option, said Anurag Jain, product manager, Google Assistant. Guided setup is available in the voice setting section of the Bose Music app.
The FCC likely won’t move forward quickly to impose rules requiring carriers meet a new vertical location (z-axis) accuracy metric for indoor wireless calls to 911, industry officials said Tuesday. Monday, APCO said the FCC should drop plans to impose the metric and focus instead on dispatchable location solutions (see 1905200025). But there was no common thread to public safety comments. Other first responders said requiring a 3-meter metric will help. Comments were posted through Tuesday in docket 07-114.
Manufacturers showed a wide range of tech products this month at showcase events in New York covering audio, video, lifestyle, wellness and smart home categories. Some looked to use flexibility of sensors to extend products’ reach outside their intended purpose.
More than 11.2 million “light vehicles” equipped with “some form” of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) telematics systems will be produced globally in 2024, and will be 12 percent of the total “fleet,” said IHS Markit Thursday. It forecasts V2X systems will be embedded in roughly 15,000 vehicles this year, increasing at a 277.5 percent compound annual growth rate through 2024. Demand for safer roads and fewer vehicular fatalities will be a “major driving force for the implementation of enhanced connectivity,” said IHS. “In the debate over which technology V2X should be based on, dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) solutions lead the global automotive V2X market in the near term as it represents a proven technology with chips for system implementation readily available from several semiconductor companies.” U.S. leadership in DSRC took a blow two weeks ago when Toyota America told the FCC it would "pause its deployment" for lack of automotive industry cooperation and the uncertain "regulatory environment" around the 5.9 GHz band (see 1904290148). Now, the FCC may propose, perhaps this summer, a proceeding to look at sharing DSRC spectrum with W-Fi (see 1905150053).