Five minutes to make an opening statement. Today the committee is holding our second hearing on the use of racial facial Recognition Technology. We will be examining the use of this technology by Law Enforcement agencies across the federal government. We had a broad survey of full range of issues, raised by technology. We heard from a number of experts about the benefits and the dangers of this technology across government and the entire private sector. Stark conclusion after our last hearing was that this technology is evolving extremely rapidly, without any really safeguards, whether were talking about commercial use or government use, the real concerns about the risks that this Technology Poses to our civil rights and liberties and our rights to privacy. The other conclusion from our last hearing was that these concerns are indeed bipartisan. As we saw at our last hearing, among conservatives and liberals, republic republicans and democrats thats a widerange agreement we should be c
Test. Test. Miss del greco, has the fbi ever you mentioned a while ago the facial Services Unit or something of that effect. Does that particular unit or any other unit in the fbi farm for images, photographs, other i. D. Type information on american citizens through social media or whatever platform. We do not, sir. Does the fbi, have they ever purchased from a Third Party Contract or wherever else images, photographs, i. D. Information . No, sir. The fbi retains only criminal mugshot photos. Okay. Mr. Chairman, i would like to ask to be submitted to the record, heres an article by joseph cox, of vice news, socio spider, a tool bought by the fbi to monitor social media. Without objection so ordered. I would like to submit for the record an archived copy of the sociospider. Com web domain that states that this software is used for on demand or automated collection of social media user data, like that to be submitted. Without objection so ordered. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Finally also i
This hearing begins with Opening Statements from the witnesses. Thank you director. You are now recognize to give your statement for five minutes spent thank you chairman cummings and Ranking Member jordan and members of the committee. I am the Deputy Assistant director leading Information Services branch with the fbi criminal justice Information Services division. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee to testify today with the fbi use a facial recognition for Law Enforcement purposes it is crucial authorize numbers of the communities have access to todays Biometric Technology to investigate and identify to prosecute terrorists and criminals. The fbi nextgeneration Identification System which includes facial recognition aids in our ability across the country facial recognition is an investigative tool to greatly enhance Law Enforcement capabilities to protect Public Safety. As the fbi it is crucial to protect the Civil Liberties of the American People as part of
Thank you. I miss the philadelphia weather. Yeah. I really missed that. Yeah, right. It is just kind of fun not only rain but the wind. The wind, that is right. National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory but it doesnt go into effect until 2 00 this have a noon. Remember when we said when rain ends the wind will pick up. We did see places with 50 miles an hour wind gusts this evening. Just be aware. But first, the rain, and here comes streaming in from a coastal storm and then another one out to the west. It will will take a little will while for this all to get out of here. We are seeing heavier downpours in New Castle County, lancaster county, parts of the Chester County a and light rain in philadelphia at the moment. Because of that rain we have reduced visibility to two and a half miles in wilmington and atlantic city. 3 miles in dover. Allentown. We are down to 5 miles at philly international, socked in the mountains, 47 degrees with the 9mile an hour wind. Sunrise at 6 51
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