Every American who values their right to privacy, stands against discrimination, and believes people are innocent until proven guilty should be concerned about facial recognition technology fueling a national surveillance state.
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Facial recognition and other biometric technologies in the hands of government agencies have become tools of authoritarianism.
I mean, that's an extraordinary story: an $8 million donation; two days later, a meeting of those donors with the president; an immediate phone call to the FDA to change the rules; four days later, the rules are changed; and four days…
Will you commit to restarting the advisory boards that have been disbanded under this president?
So long as these advisory boards, which are authorized by Congress, are attacked, eliminated, and restricted from meeting, you are not going to rebound the public's support for independent FDA decision making.
That is not a coincidence, right? That is the definition of political interference in FDA decision making.
The U.S. communications sector represents hundreds of billions of dollars in economic valuation, and relies on the legal validity of these FCC actions.
Every person in America has civil rights — in spite of this Administration’s total disregard for the Constitution.
The disturbing reality today is that many American citizens and immigrants with lawful status have been caught in the Trump Administration’s indiscriminate and violent immigration enforcement dragnet across the country.
The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump Administration to weaponize an unreliable database against Americans’ fundamental right to vote less than six weeks before a consequential midterm election.
It’s time our country acts to ensure accountability within our law enforcement agencies and provide justice to those who have lost loved ones.
Laquan McDonald’s death was preventable, and Congress still has yet to do enough to ensure tragedies like his never happen again.
From Chicago to Louisville or anywhere in America, we cannot allow ourselves to accept that Black teenagers, men and women are still being unjustly executed at the hands of law enforcement without judge or jury.
Our aviation system depends on the well-being of our pilots and air traffic controllers, who operate under an immense amount of stress.
Moms are the backbone of our economy, but too often, the economy doesn’t work for them.
If we want to build a stronger economy, it’s past time we stop treating moms’ time as both expendable and endless.
We just received a healthy dose of encouragement that the voice of people in the United States still matters.
I think my reelection prospects shot up significantly.