How seriously does the Biden Administration take its international human rights obligations? Based on a meeting the Privacy Center’s Director of Research & Advocacy, @sglabe, went to at the @WhiteHouse today, not very.
@ljgong It’s so hard! But with a few days, weeks, months of consistency it gets so much easier (for you both)! And my kid isn’t just ok but learned and developed so much more than they ever would have at home with me.
I’m proud to have co-authored the new @GeorgetownCPT report, “Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing.” Read on for more below.
🚨NEW REPORT 🚨In "Raiding the Genome: How the U.S. Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing," we investigated a federal program under which DHS agents take our most sensitive information: DNA.
Here’s what we found 🧵
https://t.co/LhRiFV9odX
Do you live in DC or care about technology justice? Join us this Friday for a virtual teach-in! Learn from legal experts, researchers, & advocates at the intersection of fair housing, data bias, and fighting discrimination by algorithm. Register here: https://t.co/4Kn1zaDKQ4
We recently filed a comment to @HHSGov arguing that its proposed rule on disability discrimination in the “child welfare” system fails to address the front end of the system. A new story from @ProPublica gives a searing example of why this matters. 🧵
https://t.co/IhYMUmCh0h
Yesterday, the Center on Privacy & Technology and @TeamUpturn submitted a comment to @HHSGov in response to its proposed rulemaking on Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Service Programs or Activities.
"This is not just a story about a data glitch. It’s a revealing story about the "surveillance tentacles" of the state’s "child welfare" system," writes @sglabe in a new op-ed out today in @TucsonStar. https://t.co/PIo0J3l7ub
In August 2023 I got to be a participant in @georgetowncpt’s first mini-course: No, We Don’t Live In A F%#*ing Simulation. Read my new blog about the course.
If you weren’t one of the lucky students, our Director of Research & Advocacy @sglabe has written a new blog to report out some of the course’s lessons. Read it today! https://t.co/wDW9IptvMc
(4) Put down my phone and close my laptop. Get outside. Notice birds a la @the_jennitaur. Connect with another human being. Wonder at the gloriously unpredictable beauty of the complicated world we live in today.