Guests: Clare Garvie, Senior Associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center Tawana Petty, Director of Data Justice Programming: Detroit Community Technology Project Like nuclear or biological weapons, facial recognition poses a threat to human society and basic liberty that far outweighs any potential benefits. Silicon Valley lobbyists are disingenuously calling for light “regulation” of facial recognition so they can continue to profit by rapidly spreading this surveillance dragnet. They’re trying to avoid the real debate: whether technology this dangerous should even exist. Industry-friendly and government-friendly oversight will not fix the dangers inherent in law enforcement's use of facial recognition: we need an all-out ban. Go to BanFacialRecognition.com and contact your lawmakers now. Links: https://detroitcommunitytech.org https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/

This is the very first episode of Fight for the Future LIVE. This week we have Ernesto Falcone from the EFF to discuss the current court battle to restore net neutrality.