Fire. Good morning. It is sunday, april 19. Lets start with a check of the weather. An interesting comparison, the picture behind you is from the tower looking east and is dark and cloudy. Let me show you the camera towards the trivalley where you see some clouds breaking up. Some of us have some openings in the clouds. The weird thing is you get an opening like that across the bridge, the temperatures will drop more. It is 57 oakland and almost 10 degrees cooler in santa rosa. Anna compares with 24 hours ago about seven degrees colder than yesterday at this time. Those places that seem less cloud cover, livermore that is you, petaluma about seven degrees cooler. Low to mid 50s, grab a light sweater. The clouds will fill out. Then we have more blue sky into the afternoon. Daytime highs today are very much like yesterday which means mid to upper 60s. I will be back we have a small chance of rain tomorrow morning but nothing to write home about. New projections show that people fewer peo
The committee on homeland to get he will come t to order. Let me set the outset number of our members are still en route from the Prayer Breakfast this morning. They will join us accordingly. The Ranking Member being one of them. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a committee in recess at any point. Good morning. The committee is meeting today to continue examining the department of Homeland Security is use of facial Recognition Technology. The Committee Held part one of this hearing in july of last year, after news that thet department was expanding its use of facial recognition forth varying purposes, such as confirming the identities of travelers, including u. S. Citizens. As facial Recognition Technology has advanced, it has become the chosen form of Biometric Technology used by the government and industry. I want t
Security will come to order. Let me say at the outset a number of our members are still in route from the Prayer Breakfast this morning. And they will join us accordingly. The Ranking Member being one of them. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial recognition of Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. The committees meeting today to continue examining the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial Recognition Technology. The Committee Held part one of this hearing in july of last year after new ths that the department was expanding its use of facial recognition for varying purposes such as confirming the identity of travellers including u. S. Citizens. As facial Recognition Technology has advanced, it has become the chosen form of Biometric Technology used by the government and industry. I want to reiterate that im not holy op
Before we get to the meeting. Please make sure your cell phones are turned off or at least in silent mode and that places smart phones and any other Electronic Device that might make an annoying noise while having our discussion. We will have a q a portion as we get close to the end and when that goes down ill ask folks to wait to be called upon and wait for the microphone so everyone has an opportunity to hear you and ill ask you to not to name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular absolutely fascinating and terrifying book, eyes in the sky, i have to point out, the little digital version of what im calling the eye from lord of the rings which i think its apt in what were going to be discussing today. Six years ago this month it in a say contractor whistleblower named edward burst upon the world scene with his absolutely amazing resolutions about mass surveillance taking place during the socalled war on terror. And of course there was literally dozens if not hundreds of
We will have a q a portion as we get close to the end and when that goes down ill ask folks to wait to be called upon and wait for the microphone so everyone has an opportunity to hear you and ill ask you to not to name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular absolutely fascinating and terrifying book, eyes in the sky, i have to point out, the little digital version of what im calling the eye from lord of the rings which i think its apt in what were going to be discussing today. Six years ago this month it in a say contractor whistleblower named edward burst upon the world scene with his absolutely amazing resolutions about mass surveillance taking place during the socalled war on terror. And of course there was literally dozens if not hundreds of stories about the revelations up or down from 2013 and continue to this particular day. That has all been about electronic surveillance in terms of listening and listening to her cell phone conversations, Text Messages and things