F facial Recognition Technology. They testified before the House Oversight and reform committee. Working on e is legislation to address the emerging technology. Good morning, everyone, and is out objection the chair authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Would now like to recognize myself to give an opening statement. Today the committee is holding on a critical ng issue. Facial recognition tech. Its clear that despite the sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready primetime. During this hearing, well private sectors development, use and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learned from our first may 22 of 2019 that he use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy. Protection and equal under the law. We learned during our second federal, n june 4 how state and local Government Entities use this technology on wide
The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that i would like to recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. Today, the committee is holdingg our third hearing this congress on a critical issue, facial Recognition Technology. It is clear that, despite the private sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready for prime time. During this hearing we will examine the private sectors development, use, and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learn from our first hearing on may 22 of 2019 that the use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy, free speech, and equal protection under the law. We learned during our second hearing on june 4 how federal, state and local Government Entities use this technology on a wide scale, yet abide
Information has not been, not gotten out. You know, when we talk about a stingray and keeping in mind, a stingray is a brand name, and its sort of like qtip or scotch tape or that sort of thing, but its become almost a generic term like those. Lets bring dustin into this conversation. He covers cyber and policy. Thank you you mentioned the nondisclosure agreement. Thats a situation where might be used in a case but its not known to the judge or defense attorney. I guess why are lawenforcement authorities so excepting to nondisclosure agreements . All make a disclosure in the sense that we do not have. [inaudible] so im going by the information that ive read and gleaned from looking at various policies. Before the hot Harris Corporation will sell a stingray to someone they require a nondisclosure agreement. The Law Enforcement agencies have lets be perfectly honest, Law Enforcement does not want to disclose this information because it leads to people asking questions. Well, thats okay.
Our guests, neema sink giuliani, legislative counsel ott the aclu, and Mike Doucette who is a commonwealths attorney in virginia. How do police use cell phone tracking today . Guest we use it a number of different ways. Obviously, we use it to try to find individuals in realtime as well as Historical Information, try to get that information as to where people have been in the past. In order to solve crimes that have occurred or are about to occur. So, but we do use it very much in that capacity. Host in your view, is it an effective tool . Guest it can be, absolutely. I mean, i can hi of one particular i can think of one particular very gruesome homicide we had in lynchburg a couple of years ago where while the case wasnt resolved by cell tower the information, that basically broke the case. We would have never found the suspect but for the information. So it can be very helpful. Host ms. Guliani, are there restrictions on how the police can use cell phone tracking . Guest based on wha
Real time, as well as Historical Information as to where people have been in the past. They want to solve crimes that occurred were about to occur. They use it in those capacities. Visit an effective tool is it an effective tool . I think so. Case where itent broke the case. Would never have found the suspect except for the cell phone tower information. Are there restrictions on who will be police can use cell phone traffic . Think it is important to talk about how some of these devices work. You may have heard the term stingray. One of the tracking devices that is used by Law Enforcement at the federal and local level. They impersonate a legitimate cell phone tower. They allow police to gather Location Information for serial numbers of not just a specific targets followed that all targets though phone, but all phones in the area. They can jam advice for making calls. This has extraordinary implications. The rights of the individual you seek to target and all other individuals in the d