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Microsoft Shareholder Resolutions - Facial Recognition, Pay Equity, Sexual Harassment, and more
Five excellent shareholder resolutions - and why they matter.
The King County Ban on governmental use of facial recognition advances!
The King County Council Committee of the Whole voted 8-0 to advance ordinance 2021-0091, banning use of facial recognition by county government and administrative agencies – including by law enforcement. The final vote is expected on June 2.
It's time for King County to ban governmental use of facial recognition
The King County Council votes this week on an ordinance to ban governmental use of facial recognition technology.
JEDII Tech News: May 7
Links, and occasional tweets, from around the web curated from The Nexus Today - an intermittent seriesUpdate, November 2021: most of the semi-regular "tech news roundups" I did in early 2021 are now hidden. This top story on this one, though, relates to the the Washington privacy battle so I
Comments on King County facial recognition ban
From the May 5 King County Council "Committee of the Whole" meeting. I’m Jon Pincus, a technologist, entrepreneur, and long-time Bellevue resident. Following up on my comments from two weeks ago, I’d like to highlight a key difference between the proposed King County Ordinance 2021-0091 and the statewide
The Clock Ticks Down on the Bad Washington Privacy Act
With less than a week left in the session, the stakes are high!
The Bad Washington Privacy Act: An Illusion of Rights And As Cher Would Say, "What a Monet"
As Cher says in the 1995 movie Clueless, "It's like a painting, see? From far away, it's okay, but up close, it's a big old mess."
House Appropriations Testimony on SB 5062 - the snarky version
This is the testimony I actually wound up giving at the hearing