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Lets kick things off with a new scandal in the world of big brother our watchers this week just as the Us Government Law Enforcement agencies multiple airlines in the tech giants of Silicon Valley were singing the praises of the magical wondrous convenience of importance of facial Recognition Technology a major blow to their manufactured reality lended in the form of a cyber attack on monday buzz feed and other outlets reported the u. S. Customs and Border Protection sub contractor suffered a data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers coming in and out of the United States the breach consisted of identifying photos and license plate images taken over a month and a half of a single port of entry and it involved close to 100000 travelers and while according to officials no other identifying information was included with the photos and no passport or other travel document photos were compromised that hasnt stopped the criticism and questions from flowing have been greer Deputy Director of the Advocacy Group fight for the future correctly points out this is a bombshell even if even if you were hauling 100 percent trust the u. S. Government with their biometric information which you shouldnt this is a reminder that once your face is scanned and stored in a database its easily shared across Government Agencies it could be stolen by hackers and other governments etc etc. Customs and Border Patrol was better than the tizzy as of late trying to roll out day by old bed trick and treat exit system at all u. S. Airports and the news of this hack could further sour the publics opinion of that so as the fight between convenience privacy and security heats up i think its time to start watching the hawks. You. Wonder what it. Looks like the real thing its like. As part of a lot of. What they like you know what i got. Was that we. Would. Be. The. World were watching the hawks i am and im definitely in the system and i just recognize that when i traveled recently about a month ago i drove all the overseas. And i remember having read so you have the terror somewhere out there hackers can find the terrible picture of me after 12 hours of. Flying from. The better for those of like there are 12 hour flight superficial recognition doesnt quite come through i mean like i want to get. My my endo angry if its when im traveling but it brings a bit of that you know you have a certain amount of understanding and we all understand that our our phone 1 is that when we travel when we go through ports of entry that these things are going to be taken and we know governments will get them we know we enter into another country if i go to greece if i go to spain if i go 2 you know to the United Kingdom that my information my picture or my identifying information is going to be stored somewhere that theyre going to keep track of it however i think theres an understanding that. That isnt a good thing to do that it isnt the safest that even if you trust governments which as you said maybe not so much you can. Always trust these private groups and its interesting that this came up because just not that long ago and last week liberty and obviously Group Membership organization based in the United Kingdom actually denounced the automatic facial recognition theyre calling it arsenic in the water supply of democracy mean so the guardian Editorial Board recently wrote on this issue it may be too late to stop the collection of this data but the law must ensure that it is stored and refined and weighs so harm the innocent and as liberty warns slowly poison our public. Big words of the garden guardian Editorial Board and there is a thing only a very small amount of people so anybody saying we know the full extent of rage at a reporter telling you that is probably rod the only people who really know the full scope of the breach are customs and Border Patrol and theyre not going to tell us. The. Sub contractor who probably will get a 10 Year Contract with the government for this and the hacker group so i think theres theres a lot of people saying they dont like it this new generation of millennialism want a purpose is on line in order to make sure their faces and you see that quite a bit and. To me facial recognition is like a shortcut its like a cheat sheet its like oh ok well we dont want to do our job we dont really want to have to look at each figure we dont really want to have to do the homework on who is good and whos bad i leave it up there that we were going to investigate right you want to do things like that was so much work and money we can cut corners and make a computer do the job for us because they always get it right which they actually like the technology. Of amazons Face Recognition Software which i was pushing hard to get the government to use by the American Civil Liberties union followed up by 28 members of congress a little like they took their little picture of the car and no these were the known criminal im going to say. But its congress. 400 are mostly known criminals but what was really screwed up about this is not only must identify the toy when was learned those 20 members. Were a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus and they were disproportionately represented by the 5 and so you can see that and thats one of the problem is that you have things that arent necessarily created to be racist they are recess in their function and you know in the in what they are i believe see that a lot yeah and i think the thing that people have to remember is that we cant get like just because you use your i phone delegates to the you know you do facial recognition that you have to say i think of the government only there is a danger with that yet at the end of the day. Well. You know as to another other thing thats a problem as its called the environmental context asport and though you may have heard it referred to as the adversity score its being implemented into the s. A. T. Test system this scholastic assessment test or s. A. T. Announced it would use new Data Collection and application tools in order to identify students who have performed better upon their neighborhood should have allowed them to how do you determine who isnt supposed to succeed well 1st census data of course so here you have the environmental context dashboard it helps a c. T. Administrators supposably by 1st separating relevant data into 3 categories 1st the s. A. T. Scores and contacts of either the 25th 50 or 75th percentile of their own high school 2nd would be information on the High School Like class size or participation in advanced placement courses and 3rd contextual data on the neighborhood environment and School High School environment so the student score is then based on the number of census related factors to be specific census track one looks at the neighbors. It measures comprise income Family Structure Housing Education and census track true which has a lot of the same questions but specifically for the high school that the person went to those 2 census tracks will now affect a students s. A. T. s scores and cluing include and include with their neighborhood and high school the median Family Income percentage of all high house schools and poverty in the area percentage of families that are single parent families with children rent as a percentage of income percentage of adults with agriculture or non professional jobs and your probability of becoming a victim of a crying and while this new attempt to make the s. A. T. System less problematic we have to ask if thats even possible its a test that was created by a devout white supremacist who spent most of his career attempting to prove that white people were better than everyone else at everything which is probably why Research Jobs keep showing that standardized tests like the s. A. T. s are not an indicator of how successful a student will be in college so hoc watchers is it fair for a test to judge the future buyers zip code absolutely not and that it was all for the way they described im sorry it was very very 90 maybe 4 when you really do that is like oh well you were born in this area so we need to wait the test because of where you were born your actual performance of the test but the test itself is a mess now i will admit. I was the person who never actually took an essay to see her and its not because i didnt go to college see anyone can do this i like to point out that me as at this table there is one person who doesnt have to worry about 6 stare and wound. You are smarter than me because you took the usa to test and went to college but what is the safety for folks that dont really like or like me who never took it right so its one of q. Usually a c. T. Or s. A. T. s the like us its caustic assessment of his classic aptitude originally about its a multiple choice pencil and paper fill in the circles task thats given and then i go through sort of your major things that you should learn through high school and i test your ability to do that so science comprehension reading that kind of stuff next is measured by a private Nonprofit Group called the College Board there is an actual board of colleges and they are not part of it there is no company that does that so the purpose is to really is supposed to be to give an idea of where a High School Student is and how their readiness for college so you kind of have this common data point for all all colleges to look at all applicants so by the numbers its like can you do this can you do that but tell me if im wrong but you know that kind of like i mean i get ok each person has their individual score but theres so many factors that play a role in how you take a test like even what i was in his you know you to like what happened that morning what happened that week whats going on that its impossible to judge if somebody is ready for college about based on like water to tell us that supposedly all of your grades in high school well thats a better barometer of this and was interesting because it was removed and yeah right like whats interesting is that when you take away the idea of s a ts you actually get more diversity in college who i magine. In one study from Bates College test optional schools in korea where they didnt increase their role and up under represented by more minorities by the average of 6. 00 to 18. 00 per. Its a big job which me tells me that another study of a 1000000 students 2 thirds of test optional college is attractive in rolled more diverse applicants which means that the say to you is like you said its weeding out those folks that i guess dont look like me. Yeah and heres the thing so like i said the guy who created this 100 percent and while he later in his life was like no reason is bad it doesnt change the fact that he put into an entire system and place that ended up really being dysfunctional for a lot of kids whether youre a woman whether youre poor i mean it the way it describes people the things that does its weird but i think we have to tell the associate dean for equity and justice at the university of pittsburgh who wrote a really great piece on this in the conversation. Said students of color with the least advantage in terms of wealth dont need saviors they need a more just society and i say i like that its the same problem i have like an athletics where there is this idea of heres your ladies team at the golf or isnt that great you dont know you feel all equal and stuff because we know you cant do this its oh youre poor or no you your daddy wasnt around youre this you dont have this perfect out bringing that we think in the suburbs should give you all the choice a all these opportunities in life just make those schools better you dont give someone an extra credit because they came from our world or a neighborhood or an urban or a neighborhood thing that you work to actually fix the problem to find a man better schools. All right as we go to break cork watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics of coverage facebook you tube or twitter shows at r t v dot com coming up author and editor at large for salon dot com the walk and joins us to discuss the do scandal involving Law Enforcement officers and their rather violent and racist posts on social media the fark stayed true to watching the hawks. We are in strange situations where everybody is making a lot of noise about military action against iran but nobody in the part of that alliance actually wants to do it theres no desire for it so do you hope that the run makes a mistake. Somehow and then does it some kind of consultation and then the iranians will be forced to come to the table you know begging for some kind of solution on american terms but you know i think that is dreaming thats a pipe dream. Here in the United States Police Officers have one of the hardest jobs in the country not only are they charged with keeping the peace but when doing their job correctly they must also remain the cool level headed unbiased figure and some of them are our most difficult human interactions and experiences they are often the 1st ones there when we are acting at our worst which is why Police Officers should be held to a higher degree of accountability both on and off the job for their conduct that believes and that is exactly what the plainview project did by documenting the social media accounts of Police Officers launched by philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker White the project examine the accounts of about 2900. 00 officers from 8 departments across the country and an additional 600. 00 retired officers from those same departments and what they found was shocking for some but a sad truth for the rest of us roughly one in 5 of the current officers and 2 in 5 of the retired officers examined made public posts or comments. Displaying bias applauding violence scoffing at due process for using the humanizing language the officers mocked mexican women and black people celebrated the Confederate Flag and showed a man wearing a scarf in the crosshairs of a gun and joining us now to discuss the plane project discovery is author speaker and editor at large for salon dot com thanks for joining us thank you for having me youve written documented a lot of the struggles between the black community in baltimore and the Police Source who are supposed to be there protecting and serving them do when you look at these social media poll post in baltimore but a lot of different cities around st louis things like that. Do they reflect the reality of the Police Officers that youve dealt with and observed in baltimore they reflect the reality of the stats from us and from that we want to read when you when you look at that say one in 3 black men born going to spend some type of time. Inside of a prison or be incarcerated at some point you cant just say well black people are born to go to jail these are people that are here for whatever reason pushing for this agenda a lot of these people come from places where they dont have a lot of actions with black people or they were taught to not respect women they dont have any interactions with latino people. Mexican but but but but they bring them by you on the job when they police and. You see the results of this that is pretty incredible when you look at those stats and its very sad about women as well because were just this also showed this real propensity for Violence Toward women and that to me answers a lot of questions of why the police dont do anything when that happens whether just now have to make rules that youre not allowed Police Officers are not allowed to rape women in their police car fragile masculinity. Tussock masculinity and bravado busy is goes hand in hand with being a Police Officer you have to be the biggest you have to be the face you have to talk the most stress you have to be able to be this authoritative figure even if its not in your makeup even if you never would be authority of anything the life you go to a job where you train for 6 months and they give you a badge and a gun and the power to take away someones freedom but take someones life so that thats the culture didnt point out is that we have to be better at who theyre recruiting who theyre learning and i mean it seems i dont know if there is a Psychological Task but i seem to remember a whole bunch of movies in the eightys that people couldnt get to be Police Officers because they couldnt pass the psych exam now it seems like everybodys parent of a single it should