Center on Privacy and Technology
| Type | Academic institute |
|---|---|
| Established | 2014 |
Parent institution | Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown University |
| Director | Alvaro Bedoya |
| Location | |
| Website | www |
The Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology is a think tank at Georgetown University in Washington, DC dedicated to the study of privacy and technology. Established in 2014, it is housed within the Georgetown University Law Center. The goal of the center is to conduct research and empower legal and legislative advocacy around issues of privacy and surveillance, with a focus on how such issues affect groups of different social class and race.[1]
Activities
Facial recognition
The Center has collaborated with many advocacy organizations, including the ACLU, the Algorithmic Justice League, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as part of campaigns raising awareness about the use of facial recognition by the government. In 2016, the Center published a report called "The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America" which documents the widespread unregulated use of facial recognition by law enforcement across the United States.[2] A subsequent report in 2019, "Garbage In, Garbage Out: Face Recognition on Flawed Data" documented multiple cases of police departments attempting to identify suspects using hand-drawn sketches, highly edited photos, and photos of celebrity lookalikes.[3]
Reference section
- ^ "Center on Privacy and Technology". www.law.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ Williams, Patricia J. (7 November 2016). "Americans Are Finding New Ways to Join the Surveillance State". The Nation. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ Ng, Alfred. "Police are using flawed data in facial recognition searches, study finds". CNET. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
