{"id":2078,"date":"2021-03-04T23:19:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2021-03-04T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:19:59","slug":"state-preemption-facial-recognition-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/state-preemption-facial-recognition-software\/","title":{"rendered":"State Preemption: Facial Recognition Software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Virginia legislators sent their Governor legislation that would require a local law enforcement agency to receive approval from the State Attorney General before being authorized to use facial recognition software. <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=212&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb2031&amp;submit=GO\">HB 2031 (2021 | VA)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The data repeatedly shows that facial recognition software misidentifies people who are Black, brown, and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? Let&#8217;s boil this down to a post-COVID, post- Black Lives Matter world where paying attention to racial disparities in our actions, conscious or otherwise, is up for attention and review. Add in a pinch of law enforcement agencies using facial recognition without the knowledge of their mayors or city councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/security\/Virginia-Approves-Limits-on-Police-Use-of-Facial-Recognition.html?utm_term=Virginia%20Approves%20Limits%20on%20Police%20Use%20of%20Facial%20Recognition&amp;utm_campaign=Across%20the%20Nation%2C%20Changing%20of%20the%20Guard%20at%20City%20Halls&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Virginian Pilot | Virginia Approves Limits on Police Use of Facial Recognition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Virginia legislators sent their Governor legislation that would require a local law enforcement agency to receive approval from the State Attorney General before being authorized to use facial recognition software. HB 2031 (2021 | VA) Why is this important? The data repeatedly shows that facial recognition software misidentifies people who are Black, brown, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","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\/2078","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}