{"id":1220,"date":"2019-07-12T04:51:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2019-07-12T04:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:51:52","slug":"1-local-gov-bans-facial-recognition-software-legislative-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/1-local-gov-bans-facial-recognition-software-legislative-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"+1 Local Gov. Bans Facial Recognition Software = Legislative Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where: Sommerville, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What: City Council unanimously banned the use of facial recognition software<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this a legislative issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sommerville is the 2nd city after San Francisco to ban the technology<\/li><li>Calls are on full-time legislatures to pass statewide bans on the software<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How is the issue being messaged?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c\u2026dystopian&nbsp;technology further outpaces our civil liberties protections\u201d<\/li><li>Need for \u201ctransparent\u201d and \u201cjust\u201d regulations<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What concerns do researchers find?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>20% of women are misidentified<\/li><li>35% of women of color are misidentified<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2019\/06\/28\/somerville-ban-puts-pressure-on-legislature-to-slow-unregulated-facial-recognition-tech\/\">Boston Herald | Somerville ban puts pressure on Legislature to slow unregulated facial recognition tech<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Sommerville, Mass. What: City Council unanimously banned the use of facial recognition software Why is this a legislative issue? Sommerville is the 2nd city after San Francisco to ban the technology Calls are on full-time legislatures to pass statewide bans on the software How is the issue being messaged? \u201c\u2026dystopian&nbsp;technology further outpaces our civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}