{"id":37893,"date":"2019-05-29T05:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37893"},"modified":"2019-05-29T06:17:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T11:17:01","slug":"the-hill-bipartisan-thumbs-down-to-facial-recognition-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37893","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: Bipartisan thumbs-down to facial recognition technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/policy\/bipartisan-thumbs-down-to-facial-recognition-technology\">Bipartisan thumbs-down to facial recognition technology<\/a> by Dean DeChiaro:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2016, police officers in Baltimore used new technology to scan the faces of protesters who filled the city\u2019s streets following the death in custody of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man. Among those whose most recognizable features may have been documented was Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, Cummings is still angry such surveillance was conducted without a warrant or reason to believe that he \u2014 or any other protester, for that matter \u2014 had done anything illegal. Now he\u2019s putting the full weight of his committee\u2019s jurisdiction behind a push to ban facial recognition technology until Congress can pass comprehensive legislation to govern its use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: Bipartisan thumbs-down to facial recognition technology by Dean DeChiaro:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37895,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions\/37895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}