AOC: Facial Recognition Is Growing Amidst 'A Global Rise In Authoritarianism And Fascism”
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she is “absolutely concerned” that widespread facial recognition surveillance could eventually be used as a form of social control — and that Big Tech could have a hand in pushing such a scenario to arrive sooner.
“This is insulating this tech from the judicial review that it sorely needs,” Neema Guliani, legislative counsel at the ACLU, said during the congressional hearing.BuzzFeed News has reached out to Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft for comment. Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform responded, “That’s music to my ears.”
Rep. Gomez told BuzzFeed News in an interview that his office had made “very little progress” since it started reaching out to Amazon one year ago. “We still have a lot of questions, and they haven’t really answered all of them. Some of them they’re not going to answer, like the practices and tests that they run,” he said. “But I’ve warned them that this issue is percolating and picking up steam throughout the country.
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