Tag: public comment
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Consent, Automated Systems, and Discrimination (FTC Comments)
Submitted to regulations.gov a couple of hours before last night’s deadline. An earlier version of points 2-4 appeared in the extended remix of my public comments in September. Thank you for your attention to the pressing issues of commercial surveillance and data security. As the author of the Nexus of Privacy Newsletter, I write about…
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#StopShotSpotter: my comments at the Seattle Budget Committee hearing
See the livetweet thread here for context. I’m Jon. My comments today focus on the $1 million for gunshot detection. Gun violence is a huge problem – but systems like ShotSpotter won’t help address it. These systems don’t reduce crime. Instead, they waste police time and resources – and harm people in the communities they’re…