Historically, surveillance technology has tracked your technology. What happens when surveillance technology tracks your body—not your technology? What happens when that surveillance disproportionately impacts people of color, or actually functions differently when analyzing them? What happens when Congress fails to update privacy and civil rights laws for the 21st century? These are the kinds of questions the Center grapples with.

• Report: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Face Recognition on Flawed Data
  
• Report: America Under Watch: Face Surveillance in the United States
• Report: Not Ready for Takeoff: Face Scans at Airport Departure Gates
• Report: The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America
• “Why Silicon Valley Lobbyists Love Big, Broad Privacy Bills”(New York Times)
• “There is No Good Reason to Scan People’s Faces as they Leave the Country” (Slate)
• “Airport Face Scans Could be a Dry Run for a National Surveillance System” (Slate)
• “I used to track cell-phone location information for prosecutors.” (Medium)
• “Facial Recognition is Here. The iPhone X is just the beginning” (The Guardian)
• “DHS is Starting to Scan Americans’ Faces Before they Get on International Flights” (Slate)
• “Deportation is Going High-Tech Under Trump” (The Atlantic)
• “Think You Can Protect Your Privacy from Internet Providers Without FCC Rules? Good Luck.” (Daily Dot)
• “Want to Reduce Chicago Gun Violence? Fund Community Programs, Not Police Surveillance.” (Daily Dot)
• “Who’s Logging Your Face?” (Washington Post)
• “The Real Problem with Asking Visa Applicants to Hand Over their Social Media Passwords” (Slate)
• Amicus Curiae Brief in the IDNYC Case
• “Will the Next F.B.I. Director Be a J. Edgar Hoover-Like Figure?” (The Guardian)
• “You Cannot Encrypt Your Face” (The Atlantic)
• “Smile! You’ve Just Been Identified by Facial Recognition Technology” (N.Y. Daily News)
• “Lawmakers Need to Curb Face Recognition Searches by Police” (Los Angeles Times)
• “How Russia’s New Facial Recognition App Could End Anonymity” (The Atlantic)
• “Facial Recognition Technology May Have a Racial Bias Problem” (The Atlantic)
• “The Color of Surveillance” (Slate)
• “Shopping? Watch Out. Your Facebook Posts and ZIP Code May Be Lowering Your Credit Score” (Mashable)
• “Why I Walked Out of Facial Recognition Negotiations” (Slate)
• “Facial Recognition Technology is Everywhere. It May Not Be Legal” (Washington Post)
• “Just How Kafkaesque is the Court that Oversees NSA Spying?” (Washington Post)
• “Surveillance in Marble” (Slate)
• Comments on “Follow the Lead: An FTC Workshop on Lead Generation”
• “Big Data and the Underground Railroad” (Slate)
• “Executive Order 12,333 and the Golden Number” (Just Security)
• Comments on “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?”
• Comments on “Big Data and Consumer Privacy in the Internet Economy”