Boston has ordered city officials not to ask for face recognition data from any source. However, you can't expect thugs to honestly obey the rules.

What if the data is given to officials without their asking? What if it is not explicitly identified as based on face recognition?

Companies such as Clearview AI can oppress people even if they give their data only to businesses. We need to prohibit systematic tracking of people by any means whatsoever. Only a government agency with a specific warrant should be allowed to do that.

*Now Is Still a Good Time to Raise the Minimum Wage.*

*Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser's Biography After She Joins Campaign.*

*California governor grants clemency to 21 prisoners as thousands infected with Covid-19.*

Chomsky: *The pandemic is serious enough that we will emerge from it at terrible cost. The cost is greatly amplified by the gangster in the White House, who has killed tens of thousands of Americans, making this the worst place in the world [for the coronavirus]. We will emerge [from the pandemic, but] we’re not going to emerge from another crime that Trump has committed, the heating of the globe. The worst of it is coming — we’re not going to emerge from that.*