<div dir="ltr">  Reminder that ACLU Illinois is hosting a hourlong webinar on privacy and civil liberties <div>Tuesday  June 30 7PM.  You can sign up to attend<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><a href="https://www.aclu-il.org/en/events/virtual-town-hall-privacy-and-civil-liberties-time-great-change" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Click here to sign up to attend.</a><div>One issue is sharing covid information, but more broadly, be thinking about the questions raised by face recognition software and other <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">important </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">privacy</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and civil liberties issues that have been amplified by the global health pandemic, protest movement, and increasing police use of technology.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On facial recognition, bear in mind that facial recognition is particularly bad at confusing people of color.  Consider this recent Michigan story <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">about Robert Williams, a man  arrested in Detroit last January based on </span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">facial</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">recognition</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">technology.   Gayle King on CBS commented "we don't all look alike."   Here's a story about it </span>from Washington<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> Post.</span></div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/24/i-was-wrongfully-arrested-because-facial-recognition-why-are-police-allowed-use-this-technology/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/24/i-was-wrongfully-arrested-because-<span class="gmail-il">facial</span>-<span class="gmail-il">recognition</span>-why-are-police-allowed-use-this-technology/</a></div></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There was also a big story in the NY Times including a quote from the ACLU of Michigan lawyer.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recognition-arrest.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/<span class="gmail-il">facial</span>-<span class="gmail-il">recognition</span>-arrest.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></div></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">and in NY TImes: </div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_kc0pmgw40" alt="image.png" width="258" height="258"><br></div></div></div></div>