Podcasts about baltimore pd

We've cheated Death once again to make it to another Wednesday, Queerdos! And boy howdy, do we have some doozies this week. First, in Kevin's True Crime Story, we talk (and yell) about how Baltimore City law enforcement and politicians fucked around with one family while managing to utterly avoid finding out. Next, in Edie's Spoopy Tale, we learn more than we ever wanted to know about television ghost guy Zak Bagans: his life, his loves, his content. So polish your night-vision cameras, watch where you're going with that dirt bike, and get ready for this week's show. Let's dive in! True Crime Story Starts @ 00:09:10 Spoopy Story Starts @ 00:43:53 Source notes: www.creepyinqueeriespod.com Follow on Instagram: @CreepyInQueeriesPod Send Us an Email: creepyinqueeriespod@gmail.com Listen on Youtube: Creepy InQueeries Pod Follow on Facebook: @CreepyInQueeriesPod

Early on the morning of March 2, 1996, Baltimore, MD police officers were called to a street following a reported shooting. They found 23-year-old Jody LeCornu dead inside her car. To this day, her murder remains unsolved. Tell the Baltimore PD you wanna see this case get solved! https://bit.ly/2vGyOjH Twitter: @BaltCoPoliice Billboard GoFundMe: https://bit.ly/2TjbvnL (No longer accepting donations.) Jenny's tip line: (410) 200-6284 ($100,000 reward being offered) https://www.justice4jody.com/ Follow Jenny: https://twitter.com/carrieri_jenny #Justice4Jody Donate to NCMEC through my campaign! https://give.missingkids.org/campaign/kendall-rae/c438796 This episode is sponsored by: Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters Check out Kendall's other podcasts: The Sesh & Mile Higher Follow Kendall! YouTube Twitter Instagram Facebook Mile Higher Zoo REQUESTS: General case suggestion form: https://bit.ly/32kwPly Form for people directly related/ close to the victim: https://bit.ly/3KqMZLj Discord: https://discord.com/invite/an4stY9BCN CONTACT: For Business Inquiries - kendall@INFAgency.com

Jeff Gurvis is an independent bloodstain pattern analyst from Chicago who has his roots at the Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory where he served as a latent print examiner, crime scene coordinator and bloodstain pattern analyst.  He has taught several basic and advanced bloodstain classes for the FBI and the National Forensic Academy at the University of Tennessee as well as in service classes for Baltimore PD, Illinois State Police, Washington DC Metro among several others. Jeff also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Identification (IAI) and is also a member of the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts.  He is active in casework in both latent print examination and bloodstain pattern analysis.  In 2012, Jeff co-founded Visionations, where they developed CrimePad, a mobile based criminal investigation and crime scene software solution. Originally Aired on Nov 3, 2022

In the ninth episode of the 2022 Election Season - Josh hammers the Baltimore PD, the City of Baltimore & Maryland State Government for the arrest of a Marine Veteran who saved lives while subduing an armed assailent. For the interview segment it's part two of Josh's conversation with David Cushman, President of the Central Valley Impact Republicans. Good news for Republicans in the Election Snapshot and as always your questions answered in the 3-Pointer Segment.  

Join us to discuss the firing (de-election) of Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and to recall her vicious political prosecution of six Baltimore PD officers in the Freddie Gray in-custody death. NEW! Law of Self Defense LAW SCHOOL COURSES!First-year law school classes, as Attorney Branca was taught them.First 20 students 50% OFF! MAX 40 students!https://lawofselfdefense.com/lawschoolFREE! Law of Self Defense “HARD TO CONVICT” Webinar!https://hardtoconvict.com/FREE, BUT VERY LIMITED SEATS!FREE LEGAL CONSULTATION!We ONLY consult on legal cases for our Platinum members!BE HARD TO CONVICT, become a Law of Self Defense Platinum member TODAY!http://lawofselfdefense.com/platinumFREE BOOK! “The Law of Self Defense”Physical book, 200+ pages, we just ask that you cover the S&H:http://lawofselfdefense.com/freebookPROUDLY SPONSORED BY CCW SAFE!Provider of Legal Service Memberships (aka “self-defense insurance”)Andrew is personally a member of CCW Safe!Learn more about what they have to offer at:https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafeSave 10% off your first-year membership with code: LSD10FREE 5-ELEMENTS OF SELF-DEFENSE LAW CHEAT SHEET!Totally free cheat sheet explaining the 5-elements of any claim of self-defense.PDF download, zero cost:http://lawofselfdefense.com/elementsNOTE: Nothing in today's content represents legal advice. If you are in need of legal advice, please retain competent legal counsel in the relevant jurisdiction.#marilynmosby #freddiegray

Ep. 28 Head of Public Affairs for the Baltimore, Chicago and Fairfax County VA police departments, Anthony Guglielmi talks about advocating for LE while being transparent with and educating the public on what it means to be a police officer. He reflects on the rewards and challenges of supporting police departments in two of the largest and most violent cities in the country. While with Baltimore PD from 2008 to 2013, Anthony helped the department communicate their strategy to reduce rampant gun violence through “targeted prosecution and putting the right people in jail for the right reason at the right times.” He also discusses BPD's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) and the resulting scandal which led to officers being charged with racketeering, robbery, extortion and fraud. Anthony talks about how this happened and what went wrong.  Before the GTTF scandal broke, Anthony was recruited by Chicago PD to manage the release of dash cam video of the killing of Laquan McDonald by Officer Jason Van Dyke, video that contradicted police statements. It was Anthony's job to help the department and the city rebuild public trust. Ultimately, Chicago PD become one of the first departments in the country to release body cam footage within days of an incident, a practice and a concept that was unheard of at the time.   After Chicago PD, Anthony joined the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia outside Washington D.C. We revisit the January 6th insurrection and Fairfax County PD's mutual aid response. And we talk about Anthony's commitment to telling the real stories of LE. His teams have produced and distributed videos about the good work officers do. In Anthony's words: “Here's what you didn't see on last night's news.” ©Abby Ellsworth. All interviews booked, conducted and edited by Abby Ellsworth.  Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OnBeingaPoliceOfficer (https://www.facebook.com/OnBeingaPoliceOfficer) and https://www.facebook.com/abby.ellsworth.52 (https://www.facebook.com/abby.ellsworth.52) Instgram: on_being_a_police_officer Twitter: @AbbyEllsworth13 Email: Abby@Ellworthproductions.com https://heroespodcastnetwork.com/ (https://heroespodcastnetwork.com/)

Andre “Dre” Severino and Ralph “H” Horton are Baltimore police officers who run The Silverback Chronicles Podcast. Jon met Dre and H on the set of HBO's upcoming mini series We Own This City. The Silverback Chronicles Podcast Website: https://www.silverbackchronicles.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silverbackpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/silverbackpod?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/silverbackpod/?ref=page_internal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2WCERqrh6XdFKcoZRHgCjA Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silverback-chronicles-podcast/id1488698343?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/66kD3pl5vu2fMVjSk5GOYz Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDZjYTRhYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/270-silverback-chronicles-podc-55926897/ Jon Bernthal Social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/realoneswithjonbernthal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonnybernthal/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonnybernthal?lang=en --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dennis-stratton0/message

Tony Maggio is a police officer who patrols Baltimore's East Side; the same neighborhood where he was raised. He's revered by everyone on the force as well as the community he patrols because he takes his job seriously and does it with compassion and respect in his heart. Jon shadowed Tony while preparing for an upcoming TV mini series set in Baltimore and the two have been friends since. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dennis-stratton0/message

On this episode of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion and Rosie Knight saddle up a rancor! First in Previously On (2:05), Jason and Rosie talk about Amazon's LOTR and more Super Bowl Sunday trailers we might expect, Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi poster drop, Futurama's return on Hulu, and offer some Random Recommendations. Then in the Airlock (15:18) they dive deep (deeeep) into the epic finale of The Book of Boba Fett, discussing what we might expect from future Star Wars stories, critiques of Boba Fett, and the exploration of politics and people at the heart of the Star Wars universe. In Nerd Out (1:10:40) a listener pitches us on Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels. And in the Endgame (1:13:47), Jason and Rosie give the Medal of Yavin to one character each in the Book of Boba Fett. Tune in every Friday and don't forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button! Nerd Out Submission Instructions! Send a short pitch and 2-3 minute voice memo recording to xray@crooked.com that answers the following questions: 1) How did you get into/discover your ‘Nerd Out?' (2) Why should we get into it too? (3) What's coming soon in this world that we can look forward to or where can we find it? Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rk Follow Crooked: twitter.com/crookedmedia PLUGS: Rosie's IG, website, author archive, & Letterboxd. The Listener's Guide for all things X-Ray Vision! The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox. Available from Bookshop. Devil House by John Darnielle. Available from Bookshop. From the Journals of Obi-Wan Kenobi – Written by Jason Aaron & Dash Aaron; the trade paperback was released in November, 2020 and chronicles Obi-Wan's life on Tatooine as he protects Luke from the shadows and tries to stay under the radar of the Empire, but still seeks to stop injustice. Available from Comixology.  The Wire – The iconic HBO series from former police beat reporter David Simon; each season expanded the scope of the narrative, starting with the Baltimore PD and the drug trade before dramatizing the docks, city politics, education and more. Available on HBO Max. Rosie's Interview with Matt Reeves on Amazon's ‘Tales from the Loop' For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mr. Edward T. NorrisEdward T. Norris is a radio host and a former law enforcement officer. He is the co-host of a talk show on “105.7 The Fan” in Baltimore, MD. Ed is a 20 year veteran of the NYPD, served as Police Commissioner for Baltimore PD, and was the Superintendent of the MD State Police. Norris spent six months in federal prison for a disputed felony. Ed Norris can be followed on his social media channels:Instagram: @ednorris8516Facebook: EdNorrisBookCombat Iron Apparel Masada Tactical The premier self protection training company, combining Israeli tactics and American disciplines.

Marilyn Mosby, the State's Attorney for Baltimore, has reportedly just been indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of perjury on a variety of mortgage and COVID hardship applications.  If convicted on these charges Mosby is reportedly looking at as long as 30 years in Federal prison--and Federal prison time is REAL prison time, with little discounting for such things as good behavior. In April 2015 a Baltimore resident by the name of Freddie Gray was caught up in a Baltimore Police Department sweep of an open-air drug market, and arrested on a charge of unlawful possession of a knife.  He was cuffed and placed in a police van.  After some travel, the van was opened to find that Gray had suffered a serious neck injury, from which he would ultimately die some days later.Although the investigation by the Baltimore PD would discover no unlawful conduct by any officer, hours before that investigation was finalized Mosby held an outdoor press conference announcing that six officers--including black and female officers--were being charged with crimes as serious as murder in the death of Gray.  The Baltimore PD investigators were shocked by this announcement, and even more so when Mosby declared that these charges were based on her own independent investigation she'd been running secretly.Ultimately it would prove that there was zero evidence that any of the charged officers--or anyone else--had used any unlawful force upon Freddie Gray, and particularly not any force whatever to Gray's neck.  After several officers were acquitted at trial, Mosby finally agreed to dismiss charges against the remaining officers. An independent Federal investigation by the DOJ also found no grounds for charging the officers. A separate administrative investigation by the Baltimore PD also found no misconduct, and every officer was eligible to return to duty. So why were these six officers charged with crimes as serious as murder in the absence of any evidence of misconduct to support such charges? Join us for today's live stream to find out!#MarilynMosby #FreddieGray

Dominic Carter voices his thoughts surrounding the murder of Baltimore PD officer Keona Holley, Eric Adams's plans to continue enforcing private sector COVID mandates, and his struggles with his new Apple Watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mix has a new release, The Linux Foundation is working on an open voice network, the Baltimore PD surveillance plane has been shut down by a judge, and we share what we know about Windows 11, -- During The Show -- 00:45 Cost of RTL 308? - Philip RTL 308 (https://www.ruggtek.com/product/rtl-308/) RTL 310 (https://www.ruggtek.com/product/rtl-310/) I to am waiting on pricing 02:40 Networking Help - Jordan New DHCP lease also triggers a fresh ARP entry 05:00 Help Leaving Gmail - Lucas Use a IMAP + Email Client (like Thunderbird) to sync your mail, then use the email client to export a mbox file 07:55 Reflections on Ep 226 - Bhikhu Kernel.org post (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211) Github Script (https://github.com/hakerdefo/check-my-net) 09:20 Pick of the Week Allows you to turn any website/webapp into desktop app Web Catalog (https://webcatalog.app/) 12:00 Gadget of the Week Logitech Rally Plus (https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/video-conferencing/room-solutions/rally-ultra-hd-conferencecam.html) Thank you Brett 16:00 Mixxx MIXX 2.3.0 released True DJ software New multithreaded analysis More accurate key detection New default "LateNight" skin Improvements for Rekordbox and Serato users Opus and HE-AAC codecs added for recording/streaming New out-of-the-box support for hardware controllers Improvements for existing hardware controller support MIXX Release Notes (https://mixxx.org/news/2021-06-28-mixxx-2-3-0-released/) 24:00 Blender Blender partners with Canonical to provide support Canonical agrees to build and maintain their own Blender Services Organization Some of the revenue goes back to Blender Blender Article (https://www.blender.org/press/canonical-offering-blender-support/) 29:00 LF Open Voice Network Dedicated to advancing open standards in AI-enabled voice assistance systems Initially Focused on: Standards Development Industry Value and Awareness Advocacy (Regulatory, Data Privacy) Linux Foundation Press Release (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundation-introduces-open-voice-network-to-prioritize-trust-and-interoperability-in-a-voice-based-digital-future/) 34:45 Air Tracking Arial Surveillance deemed 4th Amendment violation Key point - they did not require a warrant to search the data Reason Article (https://reason.com/2021/06/25/appeals-court-rules-aerial-police-tracking-of-citizens-violates-fourth-amendment/) 38:40 Would you pay for Privacy Search Engine? Free for 3 months, 4.95/month after that Neeva (https://neeva.com/) Fast Company Article (https://www.fastcompany.com/90650719/neeva-search-engine-google-alternative-privacy-sridhar-ramaswamy-tech) 41:25 Windows 11 - What We Know Free Upgrade for Windows 7 Pro and 10 users Only supported on 8th Gen Intel and newer Android app support added Android apps will be distributed through Microsoft and Amazon stores Home Addition requires internet and MS online account Mandatory TPM 2.0 chip TPMs have unique keys burned in, which allows for increased DRM TPMs protect the computer, not you the owner Microsoft will force online accounts for all versions eventually Commonsware Article (https://commonsware.com/blog/2021/06/26/windows-11-amazon-uncomfortable-questions.html) Verge Article (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/25/22549725/microsoft-windows-11-cpu-support-tpm-hardware-requirements) Secret Club Article (https://secret.club/2021/06/28/windows11-tpms.html) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/239) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they're excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

Mix has a new release, The Linux Foundation is working on an open voice network, the Baltimore PD surveillance plane has been shut down by a judge, and we share what we know about Windows 11,

In this episode Vinny Beedle stands us up, Dante is a June Bride, Mersh joins Guns for tards, SaiyanZ is Phrasing with AIU,  Luis J. Gomez stands up for Tony Hinchcliffe, Baltimore PD responds to a based brother, Israel drops a PhillipWave on Palestine, Dave Chappelle is behind a pay wall, Jared from WiseCrack is a turncoat, and finally boxer SHOWTIME hates Tom Franks from the Lupe and Royce show.  email complaints to: TheBigKahuna@gmail.com Video version: Ian Ellis LLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1IOMUCIkOw Check out the KennyTV Puppet shoow: LongBrainTV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI48g_CBwglOwbJh3dAVNvQ Join KennyTV's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KennyTVYeah/posts PhillipWave first is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX8qJX_E60&t=83s Join the Patreon for exclusive episode of the Ian Ellis podcast! https://www.patreon.com/IanEllisPod?fan_landing=true Subscribe to NotCosmicCam: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC82sijRIehBqh7-PmW79LPw Subscribe to RavenZephyr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETBRRuEa65E

Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson speak with former deputy commissioner of the Baltimore PD, Jason Johnson, about policing myths circulating the community.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PLATFORM REPRESENT THE INDIVIDUALS, NOT THEIR EMPLOYERS* Part 2 of the explosive story of Baltimore PD’s scandal scarred GTTF featuring a blistering final word and the guys take you to QB for the Infamous Mobb Deep’s magnum opus: “Hell on Earth”. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Chris Garaffa, editor of Tech for the People, to discuss how the US government used the Patriot Act to conduct dragnet surveillance on all visitors to certain websites and the many lies exposed in Baltimore Police Department's defense of its "Aerial Investigation Research (AIR)" surveillance program.

Tom "Mr. Monsanto" Vilsack to be Biden's Agriculture Sec; Baltimore PD lying about air surveillance; US accuses Eritrea of helping Ethiopia

In this episode we interview Brandon Soderberg who along with Baynard Woods co-authored the book I Got A Monster, The Rise And Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad. Soderberg is a reporter living Baltimore and was previously the Editor in Chief of the Baltimore City Paper and a contributing writer to SPIN. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Vice, The Village Voice and many other publications. In this episode we talk about the remarkable corruption of Baltimore PD’s Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which is the subject of Brandon’s recent book and discuss how this exceptional example is a logical manifestation of the very system of US policing. Soderberg also talks about all the ways in which the political and justice systems reinforce unconstitutional policing as a matter of course. We also discuss how police undermine methods of violence interruption. 

Vernon Herron is the Baltimore Police Department's Director of Officer Safety & Wellness.  He has a long, storied history in law enforcement with the Maryland State Police and now uses that knowledge and experience to help the officers of Baltimore PD survive the weight of the badge.

Kate begins out processing the Baltimore PD while Barnes travels through deep space and lands on the Boldibar Space Station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kate begins out processing the Baltimore PD while Barnes travels through deep space and lands on the Boldibar Space Station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The city of Baltimore has been accused for a long time of being racist and corrupt, but after a federal investigation into the police department, and specifically its plainclothed police Gun Trace Task Force revealed the unit was running a criminal enterprise under the guise of being a "hard-charging" squad of police, the shit really hit the fan. Thousands of cases and convictions were now put in question, as it was revealed these police planted drugs, stole money, and lied in their reports so that they could get away with their crimes. Join us as we discuss SERGEANT WAYNE JENKINS and the Gun Trace Task Force that just may be the most corrupt police department out there. Promo at the beginning of the ep is from Because I Wanna Know with Leslie FearFollow Leslie on IG!Join the family! Come hang with us on IG Follow us on FBSubscribe to our Youtube! Or just go to our website and get all the links AND merch! Coupon code CREEP for free shipping! Our source for this episode included: I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police SquadBook by Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberghttps://www.amazon.com/Got-Monster-Americas-Corrupt-Police-ebook/dp/B0818PNP93Intro clips:The Gang Within: A Baltimore Police Scandal | Fault LinesAl Jazeera EnglishSong at end of episode:Pusha T ft. Jill Scott - "Sunshine"Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/creepitrealpod)

FULL EPISODE... The focus of this episode is to shed light on the killings of unarmed black people at the hands of Police without accountability as well as how trust can be built between the police & the black community. My Panel guests today are two members of law enforcement: Officer Alex Brandt of Chicago PD & Officer Christopher Nunn of Baltimore PD. My Colin Kaepernick T-Shirt from this week's episode is from a black owned business called "Power in Black". BE SURE TO CHECK THEM OUT ON ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS @powerinblacktees on Instagram, @powerinblacktees on Facebook & their website at https://www.powerinblack.com/shop

In this episode, Chris and Michael continue their conversation concerning race in America. Chris interviews Linda Winn, a clinical social worker with a former career in law enforcement. Linda shares stories and insights from her experiences growing up as an African American woman in Baltimore, Maryland, and working for the Baltimore PD in the 1980s. Part 1 of 2.Website/Full Show NotesContact Us: podcast@resolutionsofwv.com

On this edition of The Sunday Spin, Rick Pearson speaks with Former Baltimore Police Official and current President of Strategia Consulting, Eric Kowalczyk about his tenure at the Baltimore PD, as it coincided with the Freddie Gray Riots in 2015. Eric’s also the author of “Politics of Crisis: An Insiders Perspective to Prevent Public Policy […]

Rick Pearson speaks with Former Baltimore Police Official and current President of Strategia Consulting, Eric Kowalczyk about his tenure at the Baltimore PD, as it included the Freddie Gray Riots in 2015. Eric’s also the author of “Politics of Crisis: An Insiders Perspective to Prevent Public Policy Disasters,” and shares information about the book, the […]

Over the last year, various Congressional committees have been investigating the expanding use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement and the private sector. In this episode, hear the highlights of these investigations which will enlighten you about the extent that this technology is being used to put your face in criminal investigation line-ups, determine your employability, and more.  Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Click here to contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536 Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD158: Rapid DNA Act Articles/Documents Article: Exclusive: Biometric ID company CLEAR to offer coronavirus screening for businesses By Bryan Walsh, Axios, May 10, 2020 Letter: Addressed to Brian Huseman, Vice President, Public Policy at Amazon By Raja Krishnamoorthi, House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Reform, February 19, 2020 Article: I Got a Ring Doorbell Camera. It Scared the Hell Out of Me. By Max Read, The New York Intellgencer, February 13, 2020 Article: How Amazon’s Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells By Rani Molla, Vox, January 28, 2020 Article: Ring let police view map of video doorbell installations for over a year By Alfred Ng, Cnet, December 3, 2019 Article: Police can keep Ring camera video forever and share with whomever they'd like, Amazon tells senator By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post, November 19, 2019 Article: The FBI is Tracking Our Faces in Secret. We’re Suing. By Kade Crockford, The Guardian, October 31, 2019 Article: Everything You Need to Know About Ring, Amazon’s Surveillance Camera Company By Caroline Haskins, Vice, August 8, 2019 Article: New Map Reveals That At Least 231 Cities Have Partnered With Ring By Caroline Haskins, Vice, August 8, 2019 Article: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US By Mark Harris, The Guardian, August 2, 2019 Article: Everything Cops Say About Amazon's Ring Is Scripted or Approved by Ring By Dell Cameron, Gizmodo, July 30, 2019 Article: United Airlines buys stake in biometric screening firm Clear By Phil LeBeau, CNBC, July 29, 2019 Article: NEC to provide curb-to-gate facial biometrics for Star Alliance frequent flyers By Chris Burt, Biometric Update, July 26, 2019 Article: As Cameras Track Detroit's Residents, a Debate Ensues Over Racial Bias By Amy Harmon, The New York Times, July 8, 2019 Article: ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases By Catie Edmondson, The New York Times, July 7, 2019 Article: CBP Biometric Exit lead John Wagner a finalist for U.S. government award By Chris Burt, Biometric Update, June 3, 2019 Article: Hate lines? You could speed through the stadium or airport (in return for your personal data) By J.J. McCorvey, Fast Company, October 26, 2018 Article: Amazon is selling facial recognition to law enforcement - for a fistful of dollars By Elizabeth Dwoskin, The Washington Post, May 22, 2018 Article: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system By Russell Brandom, The Verge, May 22, 2018 Article: Amazon Teams Up With Government to Deploy Dangerous New Facial Recognition Technology By Matt Cagle & Nicole Ozer, ACLU, May 22, 2018 Article: San Francisco’s facial recognition technology ban, explained By Shirin Ghaffary, Vox, May 14, 2019 Article: Brooklyn Tenants Fight Landlord's Plan to Install Facial Recognition System, Security Sales & Integration, May 3, 2019 Article: Biometric Exit expected to process nearly all air passengers departing U.S. within four years By Chris Burt, Biometric Update, April 18, 2019 Article: CIA long relied exclusively on Amazon for its cloud computing. Now it is seeking multiple providers for a massive new contract. By Aaron Gregg, The Washington Post, April 2, 2019 Article: Amazon Is Pushing Facial Technology That a Study Says Could Be Biased By Natasha Singer, The New York Times, January 24, 2019 Article: FOR OWNERS OF AMAZON’S RING SECURITY CAMERAS, STRANGERS MAY HAVE BEEN WATCHING TOO By Sam Biddle, The Intercept, January 10, 2019 Article: Innovators: Biometrics Believer Caryn Seidman-Becker, CEO of Clear, on Never Needing ID Again By Katherine LaGrave, Conde Nast Traveler, September 11, 2018 Article: Trans Drivers Are Being Locked Out of Their Uber Accounts By John Paul Brammer, them., August 10, 2018 Article: Some transgender drivers are being kicked off Uber’s app By Jaden Urbi, CNBC, August 8, 2018 Article: Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots By Jacob Snow, ACLU, July 28, 2018 Article: What we know about Maryland’s controversial facial recognition database By Taylor Hatmaker, Tech Crunch, June 29, 2018 Article: Report: Police worked with social media company to track protestors during unrest By Stephen Babcock, Technical.ly, October 12, 2016 Article: Uber to require U.S. drivers to verify themselves by snapping selfies before accepting rides By Paul Sawers, VB, September 23, 2016 Article: The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon By Frank Konkel, The Atlantic, July 17, 2014 Article: Bankruptcy of Verified Identity Pass and the Privacy of Clear Registered Traveler Data, Electronic Privacy Information Center Additional Resources YouTube Video: Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash Audio, Jade Podcast: Stock Market Information For NEC, Biometric Update Podcast: Sammies finalist revolutionizing airports with facial recognition technology, Federal News Network, May 31, 2019 Letter: Letter to Jeffrey Bezos, CEO of Amazon, May 22, 2018 Location Map: Find a CLEAR location near you, CLEAR Sound Clip Sources Hearing: About Face: Examine the DHS’ Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II, House Committee on Homeland Security, February 6, 2020 Watch on Youtube Watch on CSPAN Witnesses: John Wagner - Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security Peter Mina - Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security Charles Romine - Director of the Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce Transcript: 1:37:25 Rep. Lauren Underwood (IL): Some passengers report being unaware or confused about how to opt out of their biometric screening. As CBP expands the biometric screening program, does it intend to reevaluate the best method of communicating the important opt out information to passengers? John Wagner: Yeah, so right now we've got signage at the airports. But you know, a lot of people don't read signs at the airport. We've got gate announcements that the airlines try to make before boarding. But again, there's always competing announcements going on. And sometimes it's tough to understand what's being said. So we're actually looking with the airlines is - could we print things on the boarding pass could we give notifications when they're, say booking their ticket or when they're getting their their checking information for boarding other electronic messages we could provide, so we're looking at additional ways to do that. We also started taking out some some privacy advertisements, advising people of the requirements and what their options are as well, too. Hearing: FBI Oversight Hearing, House Judiciary Committee, February 5, 2020 Witness: Christopher Wray - FBI Director Transcript: 2:40:00 Christopher Wray: We at the FBI don't use facial recognition for anything other than lead value. There is no one under FBI policy who is arrested, much less convicted based on facial recognition technology. We use it to advance an investigation to then be used with other information to figure out if we’re going in the right place. So let me start with that. Second thing. We scrupulously train all the examiners under various constitutional protections. And then as to the DMV searches that you're talking about, again we the FBI don't do those searches. The only way those searches can happen is under strict MOUs that have all kinds of constitutional backing. Even when we get the results, it then has to be reviewed carefully by a trained examiner. 2:41:00 Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA): To be clear under, current FBI policy, can face recognition technology be used without a warrant or probable cause in any circumstance? Christopher Wray: Yes. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA): OK, so that is a concern for me. It continues to be a concern for me. Hearing: Facial Recognition Technology (Part III): Ensuring Commercial Transparency and Accuracy, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, January 15, 2020 Watch on Youtube Watch on CSPAN Witnesses: Brenda Leong - Senior Counsel and Director of AI and Ethics at the Future of Privacy Forum Charles Romine - Director of Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Meredith Whittaker - Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute Daniel Castro - VP and Director of the Center for Data Innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Jake Parkers - Senior Director of Government Relations at the Security Industry Association (SIA) Transcript: 40:55 Charles Romine: I'll first address one-to-one verification applications. Their false positive differentials are much larger than those related to false negative and exist across many of the algorithms tested. False positives might present a security concern to the system owner as they may allow access to imposters. Other findings are that false positives are higher in women than in men and are higher in the elderly and the young compared to middle aged adults. Regarding race, we measured higher false positive rates in Asian and African American faces relative to those of Caucasians. There are also higher false positive rates in Native American, American Indian, Alaskan Indian and Pacific Islanders. These effects apply to most algorithms, including those developed in Europe and the United States. However, a notable exception was for some algorithms developed in Asian countries. There was no such dramatic difference in false positives in one to one matching between Asian and Caucasian faces for algorithms developed in Asia. This study did not explore the relationship between cause and effect, one possible connection and an area for research is the relationship between an algorithms performance and the data used to train the algorithm itself. 1:13:00 Meredith Whittaker: The average consumer does not and indeed many researchers, many lawmakers don't because this technology, as I wrote about my my written testimony, is hidden behind trade secrecy. This is a corporate technology that is not open for scrutiny and auditing by external experts. I think it's notable that while NIST reviewed 189 algorithms for their latest report, Amazon refused to submit their recognition algorithm to NIST. Now, they claimed they couldn't modify it to meet NIST standards, but they are a multi billion dollar company and have managed some other pretty incredible feats. So whatever the reason is, what we see here is that it's at the facial recognition companies discretion, what they do or don't release. 1:51:45 Meredith Whittaker: Because the Baltimore PD was using private sector technologies, they were scanning Instagram photos through a service called Geopedia that gave them feeds from Freddie Gray protests. They then were matching those photos against their Faces facial recognition algorithm which is a privately developed facial recognition algorithm to identify people with warrants, whom they could then potentially harass. 2:49:45 Rep. Deb Haaland (NM): I recently read that some employers have begun using facial recognition technology to help decide who to hire. At certain companies such as Hilton and Unilever, job applicants can complete video interviews using their computer or cell phone cameras which collect data on characteristics like an applicant's facial movements, vocal tone and word choice. One company offering this technology, HireVue, collects up to 500,000 data points in a 30 minute interview. The algorithm then ranks the applicant against other applicants based on the so called employability score. Job applicants who look and sound like the most like the current high performers at the company received the highest scores. Miss Whittaker, I have two questions for you. One, isn't it true that the use of facial recognition and characterization technology and job application processes may contribute to biases in hiring practices. And if yes, can you please elaborate? Meredith Whittaker: It is absolutely true. And if the scenario that you described so well is a scenario in which you create a bias feedback loop, in which the people who are already rewarded and promoted and hired to a firm become the models for what a good employee looks like. So if you look at the executive suite at Goldman Sachs, which also uses HireVue, for this type of hiring, you see a lot of men, a lot of white men, and if that becomes the model for what a successful worker looks like, and then that is that is used to judge whether my face looks successful enough to get a job interview at Goldman Sachs, we're going to see a kind of confirmation bias in which people are excluded from opportunity because they happen not to look like the people who had already been hired. 2:54:45 Rep. Jim Jordan (OH): First part of what we hope will be legislation that we can have broad support on, that the chairman and both Republicans and Democrats can support, is tell us what's going on now. And then second, while we're trying to figure that out, while the study and we're getting an accountability and what's all happening, let's not expand it. Let's just start there, tell us what you're doing, and don't do anything while we're trying to figure out what you're doing. And then once we get that information, then we can move from there. That is what I hope we can start with Madam Chair and frankly, what we've been working with now for a year, the staffs for both majority and the minority. Hearing: ABOUT FACE: EXAMINING THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY’S USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION AND OTHER BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGIES, House Committee on Homeland Security, July 10, 2019 Watch on Youtube Watch on CSPAN Witnesses: John Wagner, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Joseph R. DiPietro, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Secret Service; Austin Gould, Assistant Administrator, Requirements and Capabilities Analysis, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security Transcript: 4:55 Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS): Last July, the American Civil Liberties Union connected..conducted a test using Amazon's facial recognition to call recognition. ACLU built a database of 25,000 publicly available arrest photos. Using recognition, ACLU searched the database using pictures of every current member of Congress. That software incorrectly matched 20 members, 28 members with individuals who had criminal records. 10:30 Rep. Mike Rogers (AL): I do not believe that anyone has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a government ID photo. Period. 15:00 John Wagner: CBP developed a service that simply automates the manual facial recognition process that goes on today when a traveler presents a passport to establish their identity. To be clear, CBP is only comparing the picture taken against photos previously provided by travelers to the U.S. Government for the purposes of international travel. This is not a surveillance program. 16:10 John Wagner: Now recognizing there's been concerns raised over the inclusion of US citizens, CBP has existing authorities and responsibilities to determine the citizenship and identity of all people traveling internationally. This is a U.S. government responsibility, not the private sector. It's also unlawful for a U.S. Citizen to travel internationally without a U.S. Passport. Now, generally determination of U.S. Citizenship is done by comparing the traveler against their passport. Again, we're simply automating and using a computer algorithm to enhance this manual facial recognition existing process. 16:50 John Wagner: As far as our partnerships with the industry stakeholders, CBP'S developed a standard set of business requirements that our partners have all agreed too, If their camera is sending a photo to CBP. The business requirements clearly stipulate they cannot keep the photos. Our partners have voluntarily agreed to the CBP business requirements. 25:40 Joseph R. DiPietro: With respect to DNA, DNA evidence is one of the most effective identification tools available to law enforcement today. Advances related to DNA technology have been rapid and the secret service remains dedicated to utilizing new applications to enhance our integrated mission. 26:55 Joseph R. DiPietro: The secret service is currently working on a facial recognition pilot. The participants in the pilot are secret service employees who volunteer to take part in this effort. Designated White House cameras that are part of the video management system captured volunteers as they move through various locations around the White House complex. Software running on a server,dedicated to the pilot, and on a closed network not connected to the Internet, seeks to match the images of the volunteers to the images in the video streams. 37:40 John Wagner: So when the picture is taken and provided and comes into CBP and we match it against one of our pre-staged gallery photos that's comprised of passports and visas and previous arrivals, if it's a foreign national subject to the biometric entry exit mandate, that photograph will be sent over to DHS to hold them-to be stored in IDENT, which is the departments repository for that information. If it's a U.S. citizen and that document-that photo matches a U.S. Passport or a permanent resident or somebody outside of the scope of entry exit, that photograph would be held for 12 hours and then deleted or purged from our systems. The only reason we hold it for that short period of time, is just in case the system crashes and we have to restore everything. 38:45 John Wagner: What we were doing with that subcontractors, we would testing their camera on the U.S. Mexico land border in a standalone pilot system. So it wasn't integrated into the main CBP network and we were testing the taking of the photographs and the license plates and the ability to take a picture of a person in a vehicle and whether that would be matchable. In this case, the, apparently the con-...as far as I understand, the contractor physically removed those photographs from the camera itself and put it onto their own network, which was then breached. The CBP network was not hacked. The contractor, and what we see is, what I believe is, they remove that in violation of the contract and that's why our relationship has been severed with them and we're conducting an investigation. Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS): So - so you see my concern about how we control the data we collect? John Wagner: Absolutely. 1:08:00 Austin Gould: So right now I can comment on a really what we're doing in Atlanta with Delta Airlines. In Atlanta, the Delta airlines kiosks use biometric identification to-, when the passenger checks in to make sure, should, they choose to do, too make sure that that person is actually the passenger who's ticketed on that particular flight. Uh, TSA has oversight of the bagdrop to ensure that passengers are positively matched to bags in the international, you know, for international travel. And so Delta Airlines has a security program amendment that we've granted them to use biometric technology to do that matching at the bagdrop. We use it at our checkpoint in uh, in Atlanta, and then it's a, of course subject, or it's used at the exit point at the gate. 1:08:55 Austin Gould: Right now, the Security Program amendment that we've granted Delta for the limited use, only in Atlanta, is the only formal agreement that we've entered into with the, uh, with the airlines. 1:20:45 Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY): I'm concerned about the lack of accuracy. I'm very concerned about.... John Wagner: A person doesn't match the photo in this case, they present their passport as they're doing today. Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY): Excuse me? John Wagner: If a person doesn't match a photograph, they simply present their passport... Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY): When you're trying to match them and they don't match what happens to that individual? John Wagner: They present their boarding pass and their passport... Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY): Uh huh. John Wagner: ...and it's manually reviewed at that point in time. Just as it happens today. Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY): is that, and those people aren't detained in any way? They're not asked to step aside, they're not asked to, the process does not delay that person? John Wagner: No, they just show their passport. Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY): Okay. I hope that's the case. 1:33:00 Joseph R. DiPietro: Ma'am, the cameras that we're using as part of this pilot are part of the White House video management system. That's the CCTV system that records videos from all the cameras around the complex. We retain that data for 30 days as part of the CCTV process. So if we're, as we're going through and we're identifying those, those volunteers that are in there, that record is saved and we save that and we're going to evaluate that until the end of the process. 1:36:30 Rep. Debbie Lesko (AZ): Mr. Gould, are you planning on using this or have you thought of using biometric technology or do you for the employees-, the airport employees? Austin Gould: Yes ma'am. We are considering using biometric identification processes for employees as well. 1:42:00 John Wagner: This is not us taking an image of a person and randomly running it against a gallery set of indistinguishable, say, quality photographs and lowering down the accuracy rate as to what constitutes a match, to make it match someone that it's not. Hearing: IDENTIFYING, RESOLVING, AND PREVENTING VULNERABILITIES IN TSA'S SECURITY OPERATIONS, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, June 25, 2019 Watch on Youtube Watch on CSPAN Witnesses: David P. Pekoske, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security Charles M. Johnson, Jr., Managing Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office Transcript: 50:00 David Pekoske: Right now, based on a series of rules, a passenger who was not a precheck register or a global entry registrant could get precheck on their boarding pass. We're phasing that out over the course of the next several months. Um, so the precheck experience should get quite a bit better. 1:36:35 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI): So are you familiar with Clear? David Pekoske: I am. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI): So I want you to know, uh, for, for a while I've been going and I kind of watch the process of clear and realized and went to their website and it says instead of using identification documents, clear uses biometrics, eye scans and fingerprints to confirm identity cleared codes, the biographic information and stores the data to be retrieved supposedly for future flight checks. Once the, it's in person registration as you know administrator, and it's a, that gets completed and then ClearPass can be used. The costs for our residents is about $100 annually and I think they pay a little bit more, I believe, when they first register. I have concerns about this. This is a private company, correct? David Pekoske: It is. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI): And they're stepping in to doing their version of a pre TSA check, correct? David Pekoske: Uh no, they are doing identity verification, but it is not pre-check. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI): So when they put the information in there, from what I understand from their website, of course they're going to say, you know, Clear's privacy policy seems to indicate that they can't sell the material or they're not going to share the material and so forth. But what's very interesting, administrator, and again this is also for Director Johnson, because I don't know, does JAO look at the Clears airport security process or not? This is why it's concerning. So the company shut down unexpectedly earlier this year for a day because they so called "ran out of money" and no one seems to know the root cause or how safe the data was during that time. And then it goes on to say nothing in the privacy policy explicitly prohibits a data collection company from purchasing Clear just for its data on what is likely or largely, you know, well healed clientele. This is very concerning because even though obviously in there, maybe in their contract, it says that they can't sell or share the data. Where does it say that our information is still protected? Can they sell it to another company? Can they transfer that contract to yet another company? And again, this is for profit companies, private outside companies that are coming in gathering the data and by them being there at the airport next to the pre TSA line and cutting the...we've kind of given some sort of blessing and credibility to this company to do that practice. And so what division approves this outside contract and what kind of oversight are we having, in regards to this process? David Pekoske: Yes, ma'am. Clear is what's called a registered traveler company.. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI): Yeah, I know... David Pekoske: ..and the Registered Traveler program was established by Congress. So that program was established by Congress as being implemented as congress had intended. The Clear organization is not under contract with TSA. It is under contract with individual airports. So there is no contractual relationship between TSA and Clear. Our relationship to Clear is via the airports through the Airport Security Program, which we put in place at each airport around the country. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI): So is there an [inaudible] Director Johnson, or maybe the administrator can answer? Do you see any security risks of the data being collected and being cleared through, you know, people are being, the cleared process that they have been using to get expedited through the line? Charles Johnson, Jr.: While we have looked at the Pre-check program in the past, we haven't really looked at the Clear program. Hearing: FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY (PART II): ENSURING TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT USE, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, June 4, 2019 Watch on Youtube Watch on CSPAN Witnesses: Kimberly Del Greco - Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Information Services, Federal Bureau of Investigation Gretta Goodwin - Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office Charles H. Romine - Director, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology Austin Gould - Assistant Administrator, Requirements and Capabilities Analysis, Transportation Security Administration Transcript: 2:30 Kimberly Del Greco: The FBI's policy and procedures emphasize that photo candidates returned are not to be considered positive identification, that the searches are photos and will only result in a ranked listing of candidates. 3:15 Kimberly Del Greco: Photos in the NGI, IPS repository are solely criminal mugshots acquired by law enforcement partners with criminal fingerprints associated with an arrest. 3:25 Kimberly Del Greco: The FBI face services unit provides investigative lead support to FBI offices, operational divisions, and legal attache's by using trained face examiners to compare face images of persons associated with open assessments or active investigations against facial images available and state and federal facial recognition systems through establish agreements with state and federal authorities. 3:50Kimberly Del Greco: The face services unit only searches probe photos that have been collected pursuant to the attorney general guidelines as part of an authorized FBI investigation and they are not retained. 4:05 Kimberly Del Greco: This service does not provide positive identification, but rather an investigative lead. 4:45 Kimberly Del Greco: The FBI collaborated with NIS to perform the facial recognition vendor test and determined a most viable option to upgrade its current NGI IPS algorithm. The algorithm chosen boasted an accuracy rate of 99.12% leveraging the nest results. The FBI is implementing the upgraded facial recognition algorithm. 7:30 Gretta Goodwin: We also reported on accuracy concerns about FBI's face recognition capabilities. Specifically, we found that the FBI conducted limited assessments of the accuracy of the face recognition searches before they accept it and deployed the technology. For example, the face recognition system generates a list of the requested number of photos. The FBI only assessed accuracy when users requested a list of 50 possible matches. It did not test smaller list sizes, which might have yielded different results. Additionally, these tests did not specify how often incorrect matches were returned. Knowing all of this, the FBI still deployed the technology. 13:30 Charles Romine: NIST's face recognition vendor testing program was established in 2000 to provide independent evaluations of both prototype and commercially available facial recognition algorithms. Significant progress has been made in algorithm improvements since the program was created. 14:30 Charles Romine Optimal face identification was achieved only when humans and machines collaborated. 16:40 Austin Gould The roadmap has four major goals, partnered with customs and border protection on biometrics for international travelers, operationalize biometrics for TSA precheck passengers, potentially expand biometrics for additional domestic travelers and develop the infrastructure to support these biometric efforts. 17:00 Austin Gould Consistent with the biometrics roadmap, TSA has conducted pilots that use facial biometrics to verify identity at certain airports. 17:25 Austin Gould And passengers always have the opportunity to not participate. In these cases, standard manual identification process is used. 17:30 Austin Gould I have observed the pilot currently underway in Terminal F in Atlanta for international passengers. Of Note, virtually every passenger chose to use the biometric identification process. The facial capture camera used for this pilot was in active mode, meaning that it only captured a facial image after the passenger was in position and the officer activated it. The match rate is extremely high and passengers moved rapidly through the checkpoint. 20:45 Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) Ms. DelGreco, can you explain how the FBI decides to search a state database versus when it searches its own system and how this policy is determined? Kimberly Del Greco I'd be happy to explain that. The, at the FBI, we have a service called Face Services unit. They process background checks and, uh, process, facial recognition searches of the state DMV photos. They do this in accordance with the attorney general guidelines. An FBI field office has to have an open assessment or an active investigation. They submit the probe photo to the FBI Face Services unit. We launched the search to the state. The state runs the search for the FBI and, and provides a candidate list back. 21:35 Kimberly Del Greco With regard to the NGI IPS, the Interstate Photo system, the Face Services unit will utilize that repository as well as the DMV photos. However, state and local and federal law enforcement agencies only have access to the NGI Interstate Photo system. These are the FBI mugshots that are associated with an 10 print criminal card associated with a criminal arrest record. 22:05 Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) Well, do individual who consent to having their faces in the noncriminal databases also consent to having their faces searched by the FBI for criminal investigations? For example, when applying for a drivers license, does someone consent at the DMV to being in a database searchable by the FBI? Kimberly Del Greco The FBI worked diligently with the state representatives in each of the states that we have MOUs. We did so under the states’ authority to allow photos to be used for criminal investigations. We also abided by the Federal Drivers License Privacy Protection Act and we consider that a very important process for us to access those photos to assist the state and local law enforcement and our Federal agencies. Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) Well, you just said state authority allowed you to do this. One question that our ranking member has asked over and over again is do you know whether in any of these states do any elected officials have anything to do with these decisions? In other words, where is that authority coming from and we’re trying to figure out if something affecting so many citizens whether elected officials have anything to do with it. Do you know? Kimberly Del Greco I do. Only in one state - the state of Illinois - did an elected official sign the MOU. In the other states, they were done so with the state representatives. This is state law that’s established at the state level prior to facial recognition and our program getting started. We’re just leveraging that state law. That state law is already in place. We did work with the office of general council at the FBI and the attorney level at the state level. Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) Well, if it was prior to facial recognition coming into existence, I’m just wondering do you think that whatever laws you’re referring to anticipated something like facial recognition? Kimberly Del Greco It’s my understanding that the states established those laws because of fraud and abuse of drivers licenses and we are just reviewing each of the state laws and working with the representatives in those states to ensure that we can leverage that for criminal investigation. Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) And so when you say leverage, I guess you’re saying that there were laws that were out there and these laws did not anticipate something like facial recognition and now the FBI has decided that it would basically take advantage of those laws, is that right? 26:00 Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) Ms. Del Greco, how many states have provided this level of direct access to the FBI? Kimberly Del Greco We do not have direct access. We submit a probe to the state. There’s 21 states… Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) 21 states, ok. 28:10 Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) And can the FBI perform a face recognition service for any American with a passport? Kimberly Del Greco For an open assessment or an active investigation. Only by the FBI, sir. 29:25 Kimberly Del Greco Some of those successes are assisting with the capture of the terrorist in Boston. 31:15 Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ) So what sort of accuracy rates are you finding in the different algorithms ability to match an image against a larger gallery of images? Charles Romine The accuracy rates that we're seeing, we have many different participants who have submitted algorithms. Approximately 70 participants in our, in our testing, the best algorithms are performing at a rate of approximately 99.7 in terms of accuracy. There's still a wide variety or wide variance across the number of algorithms. So this is certainly not commoditized yet. Some of the participants faired significantly poorer than that. 32:00 Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ)So are there algorithms that you tested that you would recommend for law enforcement? Charles Romine We don't make recommendations about specific algorithms. We provide the data necessary for making informed decisions about how an algorithm will perform in a field. 32:20 Charles Romine For law enforcement, for example, accuracy rates are one important aspect that needs to be considered, but there are other aspects that have to be taken into consideration for procurement or acquisition of such. 34:15 Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): Mr. Gould, according to the biometrics roadmap released by TSA in September of 2018, TSA seeks to expand the use of facial recognition technology to "the general flying public" in specific locations. But the "general flying public "and TSA envisions the use of technology upon domestic flights, as well as international, which would capture the faces of mostly American citizens, and I'm just curious, going back to the chairman's original question, what's the legal basis? I'm not talking about a situation with the FBI where you might have, you hopefully would have probable cause. Where does the TSA find its justification? Its legal justification for capturing the facial, uh, identity of, of the flying public. Austin Gould: Yes sir. In accordance with the Aviation Transportation Security Act of 2001, TSA is charged with positively identifying passengers who are boarding aircraft. That probably... Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA): Right. Let me just stop you right there. So, we all fly at least a couple of times a day.... Austin Gould: Yes sir. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) : ..a week. So we have, now you have to have a certified license. You can't go with the old version that your State had. Now we have much more accurate licenses. We surrender that oftentimes in the airport during the boarding process, you've got to show it a couple of times you've got a ticketing issue there. So you're doing that right now. Austin Gould: Yes Sir. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) : You have been doing that for a long, long time. Austin Gould : Manually, Yes Sir. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) : Right. Right. Right. So now you're saying that you're going to do these pilot programs and you're gonna hurt people. Now you're saying voluntarily, but I could imagine like you've done with a pre-check, you can either agree to surrender your right to anonymity and wait in the long line or you can give up your fourth amendment rights and go in the quick line. Is is that the dynamic that's going on here? Austin Gould: Sir, with respect to expanding to the general traveling public, we anticipate using, and we've not tested this yet, a one to one matching capability at the checkpoint. You produce your credential, you stick it in a machine, and the machine identifies whether or not your image, which is captured by the camera, matches the image that's embedded in the credential and it returns a match result. That will then allow you to proceed through the checkpoint. Should you decide not to participate in that program, we will always have the option to do that process manually. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) : Right, but to match, you've got to have that data in the.. you've got to have that data onboarding and the technology to begin with to match something with, right? Austin Gould : Sir, that data is embedded in your credential. So the photograph is on your driver's license, for example. There's a digital recording of that image in the credential and when your pictures captured by the camera, it is matched to the photograph on the credential. It does not depart the checkpoint for any database search or anything like that. Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) : Okay. Austin Gould : That's the one to one identification that we intend to use for the broader traveling public. 37:34 Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) : You don't anticipate taking, using a database or gathering, collecting a database of information with NTSA, with which to identify passengers? Austin Gould : Sir, for international travelers who have a passport photo on record and for TSA precheck passengers who also provide a passport photo, we will match them to a gallery. But for the general traveling public that does not participate in those programs and merely has a credential, that matching.... Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA) : What's the size of the gallery,? What do you anticipate? Is that, so if anybody engages in international travel, Is that, are they going to be in that or are they foreign nationals who traveled to the U.S.? Austin Gould : Sir, the gallery that we use right now with TVS includes anyone who is traveling internationally and who has a photo on record. 49:40 Rep. William Lacy Clay (MO) : So how many times has the FBI provided notice to criminal defendants that face recognition was used in their case? Kimberly Del Greco : As part of a criminal investigation, I don't believe that's part of the process. 52:00 Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) : Dr. Goodwin, did the FBI publish privacy impact assessment in a timely fashion as it was supposed to when it implemented FRT in 2011? Gretta Goodwin : No. Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) : Did the FBI follow proper notice? File proper notice, specifically the system of record notice in a timely fashion when it implemented facial recognition technology? Gretta Goodwin : No. Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) : Did the FBI conduct proper testing of the next generation interstate photo system when it implemented FRT? Gretta Goodwin : Proper in terms of its accuracy for its use? Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) : Yes Gretta Goodwin : No. Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) : Did the FBI test the accuracy of the states systems that it interfaced with? Gretta Goodwin : No. 58:00 Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY) : So Mrs. Del Greco, how many searches has the FBI run in the Next Generation ID Interstate Photo system to date? How many searches? Do you have that information? Kimberly Del Greco : I have, I have from fiscal year 2017 to April of 2019. There were 152,500 searches. 1:03:30 Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) : Did you test certain conditions like siblings, the accuracy for siblings? Charles Romine : We do have perhaps the most relevant data that I can give you is, we do know that there is an impact on twins, in the database or in the testing, whether they are identical twins or even fraternal twins. 1:14:50 Austin Gould : Sir, the system that TSA is prototyping in conjunction with CBP uses NEC camera and a matching algorithm that was also developed by NEC. 1:16:50 Rep. Justin Amash (MI) : Do you have plans to implement face recognition technology at additional points in airports beyond besides gates or security checkpoints? Austin Gould : We are prototyping facial recognition technology at bagdrops, so when you drop a bag off to be placed on an aircraft, we can use facial technology, we're exploring the use of facial technology there and then for TSA purposes, only other locations are the checkpoint. 1:17:20 Rep. Mark Meadows (NC) : So Mr. Gould, let me, let me come back. If you're doing at bagdrops, that's not a one on one comparison. I mean if you, what are you comparing it to? If you're, if you're looking at change, checking facial recognition at bagdrops... Austin Gould : Uh Huh? Rep. Mark Meadows (NC) : ..there wouldn't be necessarily the identification that you were talking about earlier. What pilot program are you working with that? Austin Gould : The pilot program in place right now is with Delta Airlines and CBP and TSA and Atlanta's Terminal F and it's a matching of the passengers bag against their identification or their photograph and the TVS, CBP, TVS system. Rep. Mark Meadows (NC) : Well, that contradicts your earlier testimony, Mr. Gould. Because what you said that you were doing is just checking the biometrics within the identification against a facial recognition, but it sounds like you're doing a lot more than that. 1:18:50 Austin Gould: Sir, with respect to the pilot in Atlanta, it's international travelers, and the purpose of that pilot is to positively match using biometrics. The passenger to that bag at the bag drop. The only, the traveler's camp, uh, photograph is captured, images captured. It is transmitted to the CBP TVS system for matching and it returns a match result. That's it. No privacy information or any other data associated with it. 1:41:30 Rep. Jim Jordan (OH): The numbers. Dr. Goodwin, how many..what number of photos does the FBI have access to in just their database? Gretta Goodwin: In just their database, it's a little over 20 plus, 36 million. Rep. Jim Jordan (OH): 36 million. And then in the databases that they can then send information to and that are screened and used and there's interface, interaction with, at the state level. What is the total number of photos in those databases? Gretta Goodwin: So access to photos across all the repositories? About 640 million. Rep. Jim Jordan (OH): 640 million photos? Only 330 million people in the country. 1:45:35 Charles Romine: We don't test for specific companies on their behalf. We test or evaluate the algorithms that are submitted to us through this voluntary program. 1:45:45 Charles Romine: We don't test specifically for Algorithms, demographic effects. We're talking about the demographic effects across all of the Algorithms that are submitted. 1:49:30 Rep. Mark Meadows (NC): Is you mentioned about not having any real time systems, and yet we had a testimony just a couple of weeks ago from Georgetown that indicated that Chicago Police Department, Detroit Police Department has real-time. They purchased it where they're actually taking real-time images. Do They Ping the FBI to validate what they've picked up in real-time with what you have on your database? Kimberly Del Greco: I mean, there are authorized law enforcement entities that have access to our system. 1:53:25 Rep. Mark Meadows (NC): I would suggest that you put this pilot program on hold, because I don't know of any appropriations that specifically allowed you to have this, this pilot program. Are you aware of any? Because you keep referring back to a 2001 law, and I'm not, I'm not aware of any appropriations that have been given you the right to do this pilot program. Austin Gould: I'm not aware of any specific appropriations. Rep. Mark Meadows (NC): Exactly, so I would recommend that you stop it until you find out your statutory authority. 2:29:12 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): The TSA has outlined proposals to collaborate with private companies including Delta and Jet Bue to develop and implement their facial recognition search systems. Is this correct? Austin Gould: Ma'am, we've issued a security program amendment to Delta to allow them to use biometric identification at their bagdrop. In terms of partnering with them to develop the backend matching system, that is something that we're solely engaged withCBP on..... Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): And the bagdrop, those are the computers that folks check in and get their boarding pass from? Austin Gould: That would be the, I would use the term "kiosk" for that. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): "The kiosk?" Austin Gould: Delta uses that technology at their kiosk. TSA has no equity there, that's solely to verify that passenger has a reservation with Delta where we have equities that are checkpoint and also at the bagdrop where we're required to ensure that the passengers match to their bag. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): Do individuals know that that is happening and do they provide explicit consent? Is it opt in? Austin Gould: Passengers have the opportunity to not participate. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): So it's opt out, but not opt in? Austin Gould: It is, yes ma'am. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): So it's possible that jet blue and Delta are working with the TSA to capture photos of passengers faces without their explicit opt-in consent? Austin Gould: Man, I was down in Atlanta last week and watched the Delta Check-in Process, the bagdrop process, and it was very clear, while I was down there, the passengers were afforded the opportunity, if you'd like to use, you know, facial capture for identification, please stand in front of the camera and we'll do so. There was no automatic capture of passengers or anything like that. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): And this capture is not saved in any way, but is a..-correct, right? Austin Gould: No, ma'am. The camera captures the image. The image is encrypted. It is sent to the TVS matching system, which is what CBP uses solely for the purpose of match. And then that match result is sent back to to the operator. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): Is that captured image destroyed? Austin Gould: It's not retained at all. No, ma'am. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): So it's sent, but it's not retained? Austin Gould: It's not retained on the camera. No, ma'am. Hearing: FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY (PART 1): ITS IMPACT ON OUR CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, May 22, 2019 Watch on Youtube Watch on CSPAN Witnesses Neema Singh Guliani - Senior Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Clare Garvie - Center on Privacy & Technology Senior Associate at Georgetown Law School Joy Buolamwini - Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League Andrew Ferguson - Law Professor at the University of the District of Columbia Transcript: 13:15 Joy Buolamwini Due to the consequences of failures of this technology, I decided to focus my MIT research on the accuracy of facial analysis systems. These studies found that for the task of guessing a gender of a face; IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon had errors of no more than 1% for lighter-skinned men. In the worst case, those errors rose to over 30% for darker skinned women. Given such accuracy disparities, I wondered how large tech companies could have missed these issues. It boiled down to problematic dataset choices. In evaluating benchmark data sets from organizations like NIST, (The National Institute for Standards and technology) I found some surprising imbalances. One missed dataset was 75% male and 80% lighter skin, or what I like to call a pale male dataset. We cannot adequately evaluate facial analysis technologies without addressing this critical issue. Moving forward, the demographic and phenotypic composition of missed benchmarks must be made public and updated to better inform decision makers about the maturity of facial analysis technology. 21:30 Clare Garvie Face recognition gives law enforcement a power that they've never had before and this power raises questions about our fourth and first amendment protections. Police can't secretly fingerprint a crowd of people from across the street. They also can't walk through that crowd demanding that everybody produce their driver's license, but they can scan their faces,remotely and in secret, and identify each person thanks to face recognition technology. 22:00 Clare Garvie Last year, the Supreme Court in Carpenter noted that for the government to secretly monitor and catalog every one of our movements across time and space violates our right to privacy protected by the fourth amendment. Face recognition enables precisely this type of monitoring, but that hasn't stopped Chicago, Detroit, and other cities from acquiring and piloting this capability. The Supreme Court held in NAACP vs. Alabama, Tally vs. California, and others that the first amendment protects the right to anonymous speech and association. Face recognition technology threatens to upend this protection. 23:00 Clare Garvie Face recognition makes mistakes and its consequences will be born disproportionately by African Americans. 1. Comunities of color are disproportionately the targets of police surveillance, face recognition being no exception. San Diego found that their police used face recognition up to a two and a half times more on African Americans than on anyone else. 2. People of color are disproportionately enrolled in police face recognition systems, thanks to being over-represented in mugshot databases that the systems run on. And 3, Studies continue to show that the accuracy of face recognition varies depending on the race of the person being searched. Face recognition makes mistakes and risks making more mistakes, more misidentification's of African Americans. And the state could mean you're accused of a crime you didn't commit, like the Brown University student erroneously identified as one of the Sri Lankan bombers earlier this month. One of this country's foundational principles is equal protection under the law. Police use of face recognition may not comport with this principle. 24:05 Clare Garvie Left unchecked, current police face recognition practices threaten our due process rights. My research has uncovered the fact that police submit what can only be described as garbage data into face recognition systems expecting valuable leads in return. The NYPD submitted a photo of actor Woody Harrelson to find an unknown suspect in a beer theft. They have submitted photos of suspect whose eyes are mouths have been cut and pasted in from another person's photo, essentially, fabricating evidence. Agencies submit drawings of suspects in places of photos as well, despite research showing that this will not work. Worse, officers' at times then skip identification procedures and go straight to arresting someone on the basis of a face recognition search. This practice runs counter both to common sense and to department's own policies and these practices raised serious concerns about accuracy and the innocence of the person arrested because of a face recognition search. 25:15 Clare Garvie These systems produce Brady material, information that under our constitutional right to due process must be turned over to the defense, but it's not. 25:25 Clare Garvie For all these reasons, a moratorium on the use of face recognition by police is both appropriate and necessary. 30:15 Neema Singh Guliani The committee should Look at companies that are aggressively marketing this technology to the government, including how accurate their technologies are and what responsibility they take to prevent abuse. Companies are marketing this technology for serious uses, like identifying someone during a police encounter, and we know far too little. For example, Amazon has even refused to disclose who it sells this technology too and companies like Microsoft and Face Burst have so far not received significant congressional attention. 30:45 Neema Singh Guliani There are efforts across the country to stop this dangerous spread of this technology. San Francisco has banned the use by city departments and Amazon shareholders are today taking the unprecedented step of voting on a resolution that would stop the company from selling this technology to the government and force it to study the human rights impacts. Congress should follow these good examples and put in place a moratorium on law enforcement use. 39:44 Rep. Katie Hill (CA) Professor Ferguson, do you think that the supreme court can rule quickly enough upon the use of these technologies as the cases arise to thwart constitutionally questionable uses? Andrew Ferguson They can, but they won't do as good a job as congress regulating it. Now, Justice Alito has repeatedly made that claim, and I think he's correct to say that this kind of technology should be regulated first, by Congress. The fourth amendment floor will exist and the Supreme Court will address it. But this body has the primary responsibility to regulate in this field. 44:57 Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) Did the state legislature and the governor actually pass legislation saying it was okay for the FBI to access every single person in their state who has a driver's license? Did that happen in those 18 or 19 states that gave that permission to the FBI? Neema Singh Guliani No, and that's the problem. This was all in secret essentially. Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) So some unelected person at the FBI talks to some unelected person at the state level and they say, "yeah, go ahead". Here's.. In the case of Ohio, we've got 11 million people, most of them drive, here's 10 million folks who you can now have their, have this database. Neema Singh Guliani Right, and the people who wanted a driver's license many times didn't know these systems were operating either. 1:02:16 Rep. Michael Cloud (TX) Miss Buolamwini, did I say that right? Joy Buolamwini Yes, You did. Rep. Michael Cloud (TX) Okay. You mentioned Facebook, in your remarks and I find that interesting cause I'm extremely concerned about the government having this kind of unknown checked ability. I would be curious to get your thoughts of corporations having the same sort of ability and also Ms.Garvie and Ms. Guliani, if you want to speak to that too. Joy Buolamwini Absolutely. So you're looking at a platform that has over 2.6 billion users and over time, Facebook has been able to amass enormous facial recognition capabilities using all of those photos that we tagged without our permission. What we're seeing is that we don't necessarily have to accept this as the default. So in the EU where GDPR was passed, because there's a provision for biometric data consent, they actually have an option where you have to opt in. Right now we don't have that in the US and that's something we could immediately require today. 1:09:10 Joy Buolamwini We don't even have reporting requirements, at least in the UK where they have done pilots of facial recognition technology. There are reported results and you have false positive match rates of over 90%. There's a big brother Watch UK report that came out that showed more than 2,400 innocent people had their faces misidentified. 1:13:05 Clare Garvie Law enforcement agencies don't typically have access to the training data or to how the algorithms work as well, because these are private companies that have developed these systems and it's considered a trade secret. 1:14:22 Clare Garvie We see China as a bit of a roadmap of what's possible with this technology in the absence of rules. And in the absence of rules, this is a system where everybody is enrolled in the backend and there are enough cameras to allow law enforcement to track where somebody is anytime they show their face in public, to upload their photo and see where they've been over the last two weeks, be that public rallies or an alcoholics anonymous meeting or, a rehab clinic. That information is now available at the click of a button or the upload of a photo. That's what face recognition looks like with no rules. 1:15:14 Clare Garvie Our research has found that, two, at least two major jurisdictions, Chicago and Detroit have purchased this capability and have paid to keep it, to maintain it. Chicago says they do not use it. Detroit, did not deny that they were using it. There's is designed to operate with project greenlight, which is specifically locations like, yes, gas stations and liquor stores, but also churches and clinics and schools. 1:41:41 Clare Garvie A handful of other agencies across the country, Los Angeles, the West Virginia Intelligence Fusion Center, and others have either piloted or have looked to purchase this technology as well. 1:41:55 Rep. Carol Miller (WV) Are there any federal agencies to your knowledge that utilize real time face surveillance? Clare Garvie The U.S. Secret service is piloting a program around the White House complex as we speak. We do not know the degree to which the FBI has been piloting this. We do know they have acquired or have been using Amazon recognition, which is the same, uh, surveillance capability that Orlando has been piloting in real time. But there is no transparency into how an when they're using that. 1:44:55 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) Ms. Buolamwini, right now, Amazon can scan your face without your consent, all of our faces without our consent and sell it to the government, all without our knowledge, correct? Joy Buolamwini Yes. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) And you know, Mr Chair, I'd like to seek unanimous consent on how Amazon actually met with ICE officials over facial recognition systems that could identify immigrants. I'd like to submit this to the congressional record. Chairperson Without objection. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) Thank you so much. Um, Miss Garvie, in fact, it's not just Amazon that's doing this right? It's Facebook. It's Microsoft. It's a very large amount of tech corporations, correct? Clare Garvie That's correct. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) And you think it's fair to say that Americans are essentially being spied on and surveilled on a massive scale without their consent or knowledge? Clare Garvie I would make a bit of a distinction between what Facebook, and other companies are doing, but yielding to Miss Buolamwini for more specifics on this. I will say most of the law enforcement agency systems operate on DMV databases or mugshot databases, so information that has been collected by agencies rather than companies. 1:50:15 Joy Buolamwini So there's a case with Mr. Bah, an 18 year old African American man who was misidentified in Apple stores as a thief. And in fact, he was falsely arrested multiple times because of this kind of misidentification. 2:07:50 Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA) Until February of this year, Amazon had not submitted its controversial facial recognition technology recognition to third party testing with the National Institute of Standards and technology known as NIST. In a January, 2019 blog post, Amazon stated that "Amazon recognition can't be downloaded for testing outside of Amazon." In short, Amazon would not submit to outside testing of their algorithm. Despite the fact that Amazon had not submitted its facial recognition product to outside testing, it still sold that product to police departments. In 2017, police in Washington county, Oregon started using Amazon recognition technology. 2:28:15 Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA) The ubiquity of this technology, it strikes me, maybe we've already kind of mostly lost this battle. 2:36:30 Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD) We are now seeing that most companies that develop facial recognition systems offer also real time software. Do we know how many of these are selling their technology to government actors in the United States? Clare Garvie That's right. Most, if not all companies that market face recognition to law enforcement in the U.S., also advertise the abilities to do face surveillance. We have no idea how widespread this is thanks to a fundamental absence of transparency. We have limited visibility into what Chicago is doing, what Detroit's doing. Orlando, the secret service here in Washington, D.C. and in New York, thanks to FOIA records and investigative journalists work. But for a vast majority of jurisdictions, we have no idea. 2:37:20 Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD) But well, what's the minimum you think? Clare Garvie So, we can estimate conservatively that face recognition generally both used as an investigative tool, and potentially as a surveillance tool is, accessible to at very least, a quarter of all law enforcement agencies across the U.S. That's a conservative estimate because it's based on 300 or so records requests where there are 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. 2:39:00 Joy Buolamwini So Facebook has a patent, where they say because we have all of these space prints collected often without consent, we can now give you an option as a retailer to identify somebody who walks into the store and in their patent they say, "we can also give that face a trustworthiness score and based on that trustworthiness score, we might determine if you have access or not to a valuable good". So this... Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD) Facebook is selling this now? Joy Buolamwini This is a patent that they filed; as in something that they could potentially do with the capabilities they have, so as we're talking about state surveillance, we absolutely have to be thinking about corporate surveillance as well. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Abby Sea, co-founder of Baltimore for Border Justice and columnist for One-Baltimore.org, to talk about the recent sentencing of Keith Davis, Jr. to 50 years in prison in the shooting death of a Maryland security guard, why it took prosecutors four trials and one overturned conviction to finally find Davis guilty, why the Baltimore PD has been dismissive towards efforts to demand accountability, and why the case raises serious questions about corruption and collusion at the highest ranks of Baltimore's political class.

I'm Gerard O'Brien voice actor with the Hawk Chronicles, a show about the Baltimore PD, and the Inter Galactic Force. Like many of the voice talents in the show, I play several characters. My nomination is for Dmitri Karloff, A Russian for hire thug. Another voice talent who does many characters is Jon Macinta. He's nominated for Robonaut 4, the computer aboard the Boldibar Space Station. Chris Weissenborn brings his New Jersey attitude to the character Nate the Fillion Captain of the space cargo vessel Mercury. Steve Long is not only the writer and producer and sound engineer for the Hawk Chronicles, but he is also Agent Jim Barnes. Finally our two professional British actors round out our nominations. Clive Ward is an actor of stage , television and movies is nominated in the category of supporting actor as Jaffra the Bounty Hunter. And in the lead role, as Director Cage of MI6 (Em-Eye-6). Simon Fisher-Becker, mostly known for his roles in Harry Potter, Doctor Who and the Britcom Puppy Love. He is nominated in a support role as the villain Dracmar. And in the lead role of Agent Tony Simon, also an agent of MI6. This is Episode 126 Reboot. Thanks for listening. http://hawkchronicles.com/

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Second longest episode to date! Townhall's own Timmy Meads joins Storm and Matt in studio to discuss Joe Biden's frequent gaffes, conservatives exposing the left-wing media, and how police in Baltimore are afraid to do their jobs. Tune in!

Kate begins out processing the Baltimore PD while Barnes travels through deep space and lands on the Boldibar Space Station.

DeRay, Sam, Clint and Brittany are live from The Lincoln Theatre. Washington Post’s Wesley Lowrey joins the news crew fresh from his time with students at Parkland High, and Ben Jealous joins to talk about legalizing marijuana and the Baltimore PD. Black Panther is discussed at length, but no spoilers, we promise.

Rod and Karen discuss anonymous Amazon gifts, Baltimore PD scandal, woman with Ghost husband, Piers Morgan vs Omarosa, black middle schoolers harassed, black woman yoga retreat, cussing pastor, rapper orders white people off stage, taking out the trash, pastor's car, principal likes porn video, server not tipped, cop drinking on the job and sword ratchetness. Twitter: @rodimusprime @SayDatAgain @TBGWT Email: theblackguywhotips@gmail.com Blog: www.theblackguywhotips.com Voice Mail: 704-557-0186 Sponsors: Site: AdamAndEve.com Code: TBGWT

Rod and Karen are joined by Brandon and Mike of the Comedy Outliers podcast to discuss their last monthly stand up show coming up next month, how podcasting has changed, how stand up has changed, strained relationships in comedy podcasting, Baltimore PD has toy guns to plant on people, China bans hip hop culture, man steals patrol car to buy beer, man kills roommate over beer, man masturbates in Burger King and sword ratchetness. Twitter: @rodimusprime @SayDatAgain @TBGWT @YoMikeBrown @AmericanCollins @ComedyOutliers Email: theblackguywhotips@gmail.com Blog: www.theblackguywhotips.com Voice Mail: 704-557-0186 Get tickets for the last Comedy Outliers Stand Up Event: ComedyOutliers.com Sponsors: Twitter: @ShadowDogProd

Baltimore PD whistleblower and author of “Crimes and Punishment: In the 21st Century”, Michael Wood Jr. joins the show to share lessons from his experiences as an officer and examine America’s law enforcement system layer by layer. We explore the extent of free will, the mechanisms that drive violence, the grander scope of oppression, and the vision for a very different future.Michael Wood Jr on Instagram and FacebookConnect with Aubrey on Instagram  Twitter  Facebook or AubreyMarcus.comCheck out Go For Your WinGet 10% off anything at Onnit by going to Onnit.com/Aubrey 

Tonight we spoke about Leftists on both sides of the pond, about official calls for the impeachment of President Trump, a Baltimore PD detective killed, the terrible Baltimore homicide rate, the lies of Shepard Smith at Fox News and our loss of freedoms in the US.

Join us this week as we cover Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s taste for underage girls, some good news out of the Baltimore PD, and Los Angeles police confirming both the 1st and 3rd Rules of Fsck at the exact. same. time. Then in our #Law140 section we go over the basic tenets of contract … Continue reading "GOP: Gross Old Pedophiles (Episode 37)" The post GOP: Gross Old Pedophiles (Episode 37) appeared first on #FSCK 'Em All!.

The Barksdale crew is accused of urinating on a certified colored lady's church crown, Hamsterdam begins to unravel, and here ends the police career of Roland Pryzbylewski, chief puzzle master within the Baltimore PD. Keywords: The Wire, TV, Television, HBO   Get on the email list at hamsterdam.substack.com

This week the ATI crew discuss: - Thomas Jefferson 'mistress' Sally Heming's quarters located within Monticello - Francis Chan's lecture at facebook about leaving his church - 45 vs CNN: From twitter wars to threatening mergers - Baltimore PD vs Marilyn Mosby TWITN: Hobby Lobby being sued by the gov't regarding smuggled artifacts

The Devil's Advocate Podcast is an opinion talk show, and is the attempt of a few friends to have a reasonable conversation about current events on a weekly basis. It is littered with anecdotal comedy (well, hopefully...), and is the brain child of Brandon Condict. TDAP is hosted by Brandon Condict, Mitchell Hernandez, and Frank Everhart, and is produced and edited by Frank Everhart and Brandon Condict. "TDAP is what happens when a few "normal" people sit down and discuss the week's top stories with a rational and somewhat entertaining conversation. The goal of TDAP is to provide a forum for the listener to hear multiple perspectives on a myriad of topics, instead of the same one sided debates that we commonly get from news and media organizations." Topics include but are not limited to politics, news, current events, policy, and whatever else we get excited about!Please Rate, Review and Subscribe for the latest Content!Also follow us on Facebook and Twitter @TDAP2017  Links:iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-devils-advocate/id1224763446?mt=2Facebook: www.facebook.com/pg/thedevilsadvocate2017/Twitter: www.twitter.com/devilsadvo2017...and wherever Podcasts are found

In episode one of Crime In Color, I introduce the idea for this podcast and tell you about the unfortunate murder of Chinika Hursey and Steven Campbell If you have any information about this case, contact the Baltimore PD. Phone: 410-512-3200 Email: corrections@baltimorecountymd.gov Contact for Feedback crimeincolor on twitter / sothisisthekey (personal twitter) Logo: Kat DeLong Designs http://www.katdelongdesigns.com instagram : kat.delong.designs References: Black Crime Rates: What Happens When Numbers Aren’t Neutral http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-farbota/black-crime-rates-your-st_b_8078586.html Race and Homicide in America, by the Numbers https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers Black Victims of Violent Crime https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/bvvc.pdf An updated look at statistics on black-on-black murders http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2015/may/21/updated-look-statistics-black-black-murders/ Charging Documents: Randallstown Couple was Shot to Death http://www.wbal.com/article/231110/3/charging-documents-randallstown-couple-was-shot-to-death Estranged Husband Charged in Double Homicide http://www.wbal.com/article/230827/3/estranged-husband-charged-in-randallstown-double-homicide Chinika Hursey Obituary http://vaughncgreene.com/tribute/details/1137/Chinika-Hursey/obituary.html Steven Campbell Obituary http://vaughncgreene.com/tribute/details/1131/Steven-Campbell/obituary.html The National Domestic Violence Hotline http://www.thehotline.org/

Special guest tonight: Sir Ken McClenton, owner of TECN, The Exceptional Conservative; Is the First Amendment dying; would you work for Baltimore PD; Texas: complying with federal law, which is something other cities and the federal government won't do, and much much more.

Show Notes for Episode 40 Introduction: Michael A. Wood, Jr. is today's guest on Felony Friday. Michael is a Marine Corp Veteran and retired Baltimore Police Sargent. He first gained notoriety for exposing instances of police brutality he witnessed during his 11 years with the Baltimore PD and now he advocates for a proposed solution to our nation's policing problems through civilian-led policing. Michael previously appeared with Marc Clair on  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show Notes for Episode 40 Introduction: Michael A. Wood, Jr. is today’s guest on Felony Friday. Michael is a Marine Corp Veteran and retired Baltimore Police Sargent. He first gained notoriety for exposing instances of police brutality he witnessed during his 11 years with the Baltimore PD and now he advocates for a proposed solution to our nation’s policing problems through civilian-led policing. Michael previously appeared with Marc Clair on 

Thanks to everyone to thats been listening so far! Big shout out to Carrie for coming through last week... & shes back! Quincy & Twon come through this week to help us talk about the women of #TeamUSA dominating the 2016 Summer Olympics, Snoop Dogg & Martha Stewart's cooking show, R. Kelly's new girlfriend, Lil BowWow's retirement, The Weeknd donation to #BlackLivesMatter, Michael Jordan's donations, the Baltimore PD & BILLS! Check it out!

In episode 15, we discuss the report from the Department of Justice on the systematic racism of the Baltimore Police Department. We also look into the murder of a teenager by a North Carolina neighborhood watch member. Plus, an officer in Oregon receives threats for exposing his racist police chief. This and more on #InJustice.

In episode 15, we discuss the report from the Department of Justice on the systematic racism of the Baltimore Police Department. We also look into the murder of a teenager by a North Carolina neighborhood watch member. Plus, an officer in Oregon receives threats for exposing his racist police chief. This and more on #InJustice.

Rod and Karen discuss LGBTQ news, Stanford judge in the news again, Mexico anti-sexting campaign, Troy Ave suing, Akinyele for mayor, black kids at higher risk for suicide, slavery reparations costs, activist call out black men, Baltimore PD, white people news, man in dress craps at hair salon, woman dislocated her own shoulder for drugs and sword ratchetness. Sponsors: Site: www.lootcrate.com/tbgwt Code: TBGWT www.GetBevel.Com Code: FreeTBGWT

Jesse and Brittany discuss Jesse's indomitable spirit in the face of vicious Internet hatred, the Department of Justice's findings following investigation of the Baltimore Police Department, a priest referenced in the movie ‘Spotlight' who killed himself, Donald Trump's call for Hillary Clinton's assassination and surrogate responses, Susan Collins refuses to support Donald Trump, as do... The post #236 – “Internet Hatred, DOJ – Baltimore PD, Spotlight Priest Dead, Trump Crosses Another Line, Susan Collins and Other Notable GOP Members Refuse Trump, HRC Email Trouble, TCB is #ManyPeopleAreSaying” appeared first on I Doubt It Podcast.

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McNulty talks it out with a man we never see again, Stringer draws pictures in court, and we find out that the Baltimore PD is ahead of its time in terms of LGBT acceptance. Get on the email list at hamsterdam.substack.com

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair is joined by former Baltimore police officer Michael A. Wood, who recently made headlines for a series of tweets exposing instances of police brutality he witnessed during his 11 year with the Baltimore PD. Michael explains what drove his desire to become a police officer from a very young age, and how his view of the role of police was gradually altered during his time serving as a police officer on the streets of Baltimore. Marc and Michael discuss the case of Freddie Gray, the questionable circumstances surrounding his arrest, and why the abuse Gray likely received at the hands of police officers is so common. Michael describes the many instances of police brutality he witnessed as an officer, the inherent [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

@LeslieMac & Ricky from @AUADOTORG are joined by Larry Fellows III to discuss Baltimore PD lies in action, recent arsons at Black churches, SCOTUS upholds Fair Housing Act and creating space for building, healing & accountability within the movement. Subscribe to the Ferguson Response Network Podcast via: iTunes Stitcher Radio Join the Movement: fergusonresponse.org for tools & resources … Continue reading Ferguson Response Network Podcast Ep 22 – Building, Healing & Accountability in the Movement →

BHL: Justice Is Served -- In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Sara Azari and Chelsea Galicia discuss legal cases for the week of May 13th, 2015. In today's show the hosts discuss the new Chris Brown case involving a stalker who was found in his bathroom after breaking into his house. The girl is currently facing felony charges. We'll also be discussing the new developments in the Freddie Gray case with the Baltimore Police Department being under investigation by the department of justice. Deflategate makes a return with a suspension for Tom Brady, and the football news doesn't stop there, as NFL Draft pick Jameis Winston is suing alleged rape victim for defamation. All this and more on today's Justice Is Served!

Rod and Karen discuss mother's day, Chris Brown's stalker, Game vs Young Thug, a bunch of gay news, Baltimore PD investigated by the DOJ, new Hamburglar, Janet Hubert vs Kenya Moore again, TNT academy graduation, BallerAlert, parenting with drugs, mayor has child porn and sword ratchetness. Twitter: @rodimusprime @SayDatAgain @TBGWT Email: theblackguywhotips@gmail.com Blog: www.theblackguywhotips.com Voice Mail: 704-557-0186 Sponsors: www.shadowdogproductions.com And they're on Twitter: @ShadowDogProd www.GetBevel.Com Code: TBGWT

Episode 2 of Durags and Boat Shoes now with a better mic. Blacc Chyna gets put on the summer jam screen along with the Baltimore PD. Shoutout my fellow geeks