Lessons From Ohio: State Governments and Facial Recognition
Today, I have a piece over at Security States, a joint project of Lawfare and The New Republic which just got underway this week.
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Today, I have a piece over at Security States, a joint project of Lawfare and The New Republic which just got underway this week. Entitled "Lessons from Ohio: State Governments and Facial Recognition," the piece begins:
With all the attention these days on NSA activities, it’s easy to forget that much surveillance in the United States takes place at the state and local level, and it is also regulated by state and local law. Much of the really high tech stuff is centralized in the federal government’s hands, but debate about at least one new technology—facial recognition—is going on in some places at the state level, and that’s a good thing.
Matthew Waxman is a law professor at Columbia Law School, where he chairs the National Security Law Program. He also previously co-chaired the Cybersecurity Center at Columbia University's Data Science Institute, and he is Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served in senior policy positions at the State Department, Defense Department, and National Security Council. After graduating from Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.
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