1,250 Former DOJ Officials Demand Investigation Into Barr's Involvement in Violently Dispersing Demonstrators Near White House.

Family farmers reject carbon trading as a tool for greenwashing.

Suggestions for going beyond the bill proposed in the House of Representatives.

I agree with most of these suggestions, but the one for body cameras needs to be more selective. We want body cameras to record when there is violence but not when there isn't. If they recorded all the time, they would turn every cop info a surveillance system.

We can't depend on the good will of cops to turn the cameras on and off when they ought to be on and off. So I've proposed a technical system to do it automatically.

See When Should Body Cameras Record.

Amazon has told thug departments that for one year they cannot use its face recognition system.

However, there are other face recognition systems that thugs can use.

To ban thug departments from using face recognition directly is insufficient. What about when Clearview AI turns itself into a general service for tracking people, without saying how it localized them?

We have to make it illegal to set up a system to do systematic face recognition or other biometric tracking.

The danger of false matches is a secondary issue. As long as such errors are common, they will make it easy for anyone to argue, "That was a false match &emdash; I wasn't there." To understand the real danger we face, imagine that someday computer face recognition is perfect.

Sanders Demands Congressional Ban on Police Use of Tear Gas and Rubber[-coated] Bullets Against Protesters.