WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), and Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) announced the reintroduction of the No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act of 2021 (bill text), their bill to prohibit the usage of facial and biometric recognition in most federally funded public housing and require the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to submit a report to…
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HHS Secretary Becerra: ‘Absolutely the government’s business’ to know which Americans haven’t been vaccinated
David Rutz reports: Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday it was “absolutely the government’s business” to know which Americans haven’t been vaccinated yet against the coronavirus. Responding to GOP criticisms of the Biden administration’s planned “door-to-door” campaign to encourage unvaccinated Americans to inoculate themselves, Becerra told CNN the government has had to “spend trillions of dollars to…
Reserved to the states…. some news on state level
Arizona Rebuffs Biden’s ‘Door-To-Door’ Vaccination Strategy, Blasts Admin For ‘Severe Breach Of Privacy’ Tim Pearce reports: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich expressed “great alarm” at President Joe Biden’s plan to send teams door-to-door to promote the COVID-19 vaccine to hesitant Americans on Tuesday, saying that the president’s strategy may be a violation of privacy. Brnovich sent…
This Manual for a Popular Facial Recognition Tool Shows Just How Much the Software Tracks People
Alfred Ng reports: In 2019, the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas ran a weeklong pilot program with the facial recognition firm AnyVision in its school hallways. With more than 5,000 student photos uploaded for the test run, AnyVision called the results “impressive” and expressed excitement at the results to school administrators. “Overall, we…