greetings and salyut. let's kick things off with a new scandal in the world of big brother arc watchers this week just as the us government law enforcement agencies multiple airlines in the tech giants of silicon valley were singing the praises of the magical wondrous convenience of importance of facial recognition technology a major blow to their manufactured reality landed in the form of a cyber attack on monday buzz feed and other outlets reported the u.s. customs and border protection sub contractor suffered a data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers coming in and out of the united states the breach consisted of identifying photos and license plate images taken over a month and a half at a single port of entry and it involved close to $100000.00 travelers and while according to officials no other identifying information was included with the photos and no passport or other travel document photos were compromised that hasn't

stopped the criticism and questions from flowing evan greer deputy director of the advocacy group fight for the future correctly points out this is a bombshell even if even if you 100 percent trust the u.s. government with their biometric information which you shouldn't this is a reminder that once your face is scanned and stored in a database it's easily shared across government agencies it can be stolen by hackers and other governments etc etc. customs and border patrol was better than a tizzy as a play trying to roll out day by old bed trick entry exit system at all u.s. airports and the news of this hack could further sour the public's opinion of that so as the fight between convenience privacy and security heats up i think it's time to start watching the hawks. you. wonder what. it looks like the real thing it's like. as the plot of.

the day like you know i got. with. the. world watching the hawks i am tired and i'm definitely in the system and i just recognize that when i traveled recently about a month ago i drove all the overseas. and i remember having mad so you have the terror somewhere out there hackers can find the terrible picture of me after 12 hours of. flying from. the better for those of like there are 12 hour flight suit facial recognition doesn't quite come through i mean like i want to look at. my my endo angry if that's what i'm traveling but it brings a bit of that you know you have a certain amount of understanding that we all understand that our our phones 1 that

when we travel when we go through ports of entry that these things are going to be taken and we know governments will get them we know we enter into another country if i go to greece if i go to spain if i go 2 you know to the united kingdom that my information my picture or my identifying information is going to be stored somewhere that they're going to keep track of it however i think there's an understanding that. that isn't a good thing to do that it isn't the safest but even if you trust government which as you said maybe not so much you can't always trust these private groups but it's interesting that this came up because just not that long ago and last week liberty and obviously group membership organization based in the united kingdom actually denounced the automatic facial recognition they're calling it arsenic in the water supply of democracy mean so the guardian editorial board recently wrote on this issue it may be too late to stop the collection of this data but the law must ensure that it is stored and refined and weighs so harm the innocent and as liberty

warns slowly poison our public. big words out of the garden the guardian editorial board on there is a thing only a very small amount of people so anybody saying we know the full extent of breach as a reporter telling you that is probably rod the only people who really know the full scope of the breach are customs and border patrol and they're not going to tell us . the. sub contractor who probably will get a 10 year contract with us government for this and the hacker group so i think there's there's a lot to be said but people are saying they don't like it this new generation of millennialism want a purpose is on line in order to make sure their faces and you see that quite a bit and. to me facial recognition is like a shortcut it's like a cheat sheet it's like oh ok we don't want to do our job we don't really want to have to look at each figure we don't really want to have to do the homework on who is good and who's bad i leave it up there that we were going to investigate right

you want to do things like that was so much work and money didn't cut corners make a computer do the job because they always get it right which they are actually like the technology. of amazon special recognition software which i was pushing hard to get the government to use by the american civil liberties union filed with it all. 28 members of congress as you know that's a little like they took there is all the pictures a car and no these were the known criminals is going to say it's about it's congress. 400 are mostly known criminals but what was really screwed up about this is not only must identify the toy when was learned those 20 members. were a majority of the congressional black caucus and they were disproportionately represented and finding so you can see that and that's one of the problem is that you have things that aren't necessarily created to be racist they are recess in their function and there you know in the in what they are and we see that

a lot yeah and i think the thing that people have to remember is that we can't get like just because you use your i phone delegates to the you know you do facial recognition that you have to say i think it's the government really there's a danger with that at the end of the day. well. you know as to another other thing that's a problem as it's called the environmental context asport and though you may have heard it referred to as the adversity score it's being implemented into the s.a.t. test system this colossal assessment test or s.a.t.'s mounts that would use new data collection and application tools in order to identify students who have performed better upon their neighborhood should have allowed them to how do you determine who isn't supposed to succeed well 1st census data of course so here you have the environmental context dashboard it helps a c.t. administrators supposably by 1st separating relevant data into 3 categories 1st the

s.a.t. scores in context of either the 25th 50th or 75th percentile of their own high school 2nd would be information on the high school like class size or participation in advanced placement courses and 3rd contextual data on the neighborhood environment and school high school environment so. the student score is then based on the number of census related factors 2 to be specific census track one looks at the neighborhood it measures comprised income family structure housing education and census track true which has a lot of the same questions but specifically for the high school that the person went to those 2 census tracks will now affect a student's s.a.t.'s scores and cluing include and include with their neighborhood and high school the median family income percentage of all high house schools and poverty in the area percentage of families that are single parent families with

children rent as a percentage of income percentage of adults with agriculture or non professional jobs and your probability of becoming a victim of a crying and while this new attempt to make the s.a.t. system less problematic we have to ask if that's even possible it's a test that was created by an avowed white supremacist who spent most of his career attempting to prove that white people were better than everyone else at everything which is probably why research just gave showing that standardized tests like the s.a.t.'s are not an indicator of how successful a student will be in college so hockey watchers is it fair for a test to judge the future buyers zip codes. lou li na and that's all for the way you described i'm sorry it was very very nice to maybe that is like oh well you were born in this area so we need to wait the test because of where you were born your actual performance of the test but the test itself is

a mess now i will admit. i was the person who never actually took an essay t. . s. because i didn't go to college see anyone can do this i like to point out that me as at this table there is one person who doesn't c have to worry about stern wound . up if you are smarter than me because you took the usa to test and went to college but what is it the s.a.t.'s for folks that don't really like or like me i never took it right so it's one of q. usually a c. t. or s.a.t.'s the i guess it's caustic assessment of his classic aptitude originally but it's a multiple choice pencil and paper fill in the circles task that's given and then i go through sort of your major things that you should learn through high school and i test your ability to do that so science comprehension reading that kind of stuff next is measured by a private nonprofit group called the college board there is an actual board of colleges they are now part of it there is

a company that does that so the purpose is to really is supposed to be to give an idea of where our high school student is and how their readiness for college so you kind of have this common data point for all all colleges to look at all applicants so by the numbers it's like can you do this can you do that but tell me if i'm wrong but you know that kind of like i mean i get ok each person has their individual score but there's so many factors that play a role in how you take a test like even what i was in his you know you to like what happened that morning what happened that week what's going on but it's impossible to judge if somebody is ready for college about based on like water to tell us that supposedly all of your grades in high school well that's a better barometer of this and what's interesting actually was removed and yeah right like what's interesting is that when you take away the idea of s a t's you actually get more diversity in college who i magine than my own ras in one study from bates college test optional schools in korea where they didn't increase their role and up under represented by more minorities by the average of $6.00 to $18.00

per. it's a big job which means tells me that another study of a 1000000 students 2 thirds of test optional college is attractive in rolled more diverse applicants which means that the is like you said it's weeding out those folks that i guess don't look like me. yeah and here's the thing so like i said the guy who created this 101st and while he later in his life was like no reason is bad it doesn't change the fact that he put into an entire system and place that ended up really being dysfunctional for a lot of kids whether you're a woman whether you're poor i mean it the way it describes people the things that does it's weird but i think we have to tell the associate dean for equity and justice at the university of pittsburgh who wrote a really great piece on this and the conversation. said students of color with the least advantage in terms of wealth don't need saviors they need a more just society and i say i like that it's the same problem i have like an

athletics where there is this idea of here's your ladies team at the golf or isn't that great you don't do you feel all the stuff because we know you can't do this it's oh you're poor i know you did your daddy wasn't around you're this you don't have this perfect out bringing that we think in the suburbs should give you all the choice a all these opportunities it might just make those schools better you don't give someone an extra credit because they came from our world or a neighborhood or an urban or a neighborhood thing that you work to actually fix the problem defend america better schools. would it work all right as we go to break clark watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics with coverage based with you through twitter poll shows that are coming up author and editor at large for salon dot com the work of joins us to discuss the do scandal involving law enforcement officers and their rather violent and racist posts on social media through the fog stay tuned to watch for the whole.

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the surround us. what i wanted something you really believe there are these. but i'll hold you in delhi don't let the local police just because i'm like oh well just like you don't like or leave your leave there's a chance to look at your bullshit to look at you look this is what you. were. there you know would you like the world. outlet you're for ourselves. here in the united states police officers have one of the hardest jobs in the country not only are they charged with keeping the peace but when doing their job

correctly they must also remain be cool levelheaded unbiased figure and some of them are most difficult human interactions and experiences they are often the 1st ones there when we are acting out our worst which is why police officers should be held to a higher degree of accountability both on and off the job for their conduct and believes and that is exactly what the plainview project did by documenting the social media accounts of police officers launched by philadelphia lawyer emily baker white the project examine the accounts of about $2900.00 officers from 8 departments across the country and an additional $600.00 retired officers from the same departments and what they found was shocking for some but a sad truth for the rest of us roughly one in 5 of the current officers and 2 in 5 of the retired officers examined made public posts or comments. playing bias applauding violence scoffing at due process or using dehumanizing language the officers mocked mexicans women and black people celebrated the confederate flag and

showed a man wearing a t. a scar in the crosshairs of a gun and joining us now to discuss the plainview project's discoveries is author speaker and editor at large for salon dot com to walk and thanks for joining us thank you guys for having me dee you've written document of a lot of the struggles between the black community in baltimore and the police source who are supposed to be there protecting and serving. when you look at these social media paul posting these were in baltimore but a lot of the cities robert st louis things like the. do they reflect the reality of the police the police officers that you've dealt with and observed in baltimore they've reflect the reality of the stats something for everyone to read when you when you look at the stats to say one in 3 black men born going to spend some type of time. inside of a prison so or be incarcerated at some point you can't just say well all black people are born to go to jail these are people that are here for whatever reason

pushing for this agenda a lot of these people come from places where they don't have a lot of actions with black people or they were taught to not respect women but they don't have any interactions with latino people who they are called mexican but you know but but but they bring their bias with them on the job when a police and you see the person you see the results of the stats you know it's pretty incredible when you look at those yeah and it's very sad about women as well because we're just this also showed this real propensity for violence toward women and that to me answers a lot of questions of why the police don't do anything when that happens why they're just now have to make rules that you're not allowed please have certain allowed to rape women and there really a scar is a culture of fragile masculinity and there's you know toxic masculinity and bravado is goes hand in hand with being a police officer you have to be the biggest you have to be dipped office you have to talk the most stress you have to be able to be this authoritative figure even if

it's not in your makeup even if you never would be authority of even the life you go to a job where you train for 6 months and they give you a badge and a gun and the power to take away someone's freedom or take someone's life so that that's the culture you know didn't work that is that we have to be better at who they're recruiting who they're learning and i mean it seems i don't know if there is a psychological test but i seem to remember a whole bunch of movies in the eighty's that said people couldn't get to be police officers because they couldn't pass the psych exam now it's. like everybody's parent of a thing as it should be more than an exam should be a one time thing and this is like you know you never heard me advocating for police officers that is the 1st time everybody got back i will say this i grew up i when you grow up in the streets and you see you deal with a lot of death and a lot of murder you see a lot and it's not strange for me to say that a lot of my friends and i. are traumatized it was mixed it well you

a police officer like you said in an intro you know 1st person pulling up when a lot of these people are dead or you see gunfire you see in these things happen that comes with trauma to you know how you want to give a person one example when they start and let them have the 2030 year career i've seen a trauma every day and they you know most of them want to marry away so it's a 2 way street like we all need to figure out different ways that they're with this stuff not just us but them as well you know it's interesting because when you go through and you look at all these i mean you had you know one guy right now it's a good day for a chokehold you know i mean like it's ridiculous was that ok that's what i said you know that would be ok if we said it was a good day for a joke over you when your best friend right always not in the instance i really want it on and probably any time you say anything if someone did say something on line about cops they'd probably be arrested for threatening police officers or putting you know it's like there is there's definitely a double standard most definitely i mean with ok you got what's interesting is philadelphia phoenix and st louis have all announced that they're in but you know because of this site which you see on the screen now which you can like go through

and look at what all these people said philadelphia phoenix say most of all and now the investigations are happening while other jurisdictions featured in the database dallas denton texas 20 falls idaho lake county florida have remained silent nothing's gone forward with that why do you believe there is such a disconnect when it comes to accountability. holding police accountable and should we hold police officers were called before what they say online and this is a big question if they're saying it off duty or if they're retired at this point should we be holding them accountable for what they say on. you know if they ever tell you. you know i'm not going to speak go off duty because if you do do you still like you're going to get out of that he said i got a badge so you still have a power you still have the power to take someone's freedom take someone's life but what i will say about. those retired police officers or pretty much our police officers in general is you know i don't want you to be held accountable in a way where you know we see you said it you lose

a vacation day or something like that and you get a chance to go back to work i want you to understand why it's wrong how do we get to that point how do we get people to see that when you say certain things about a woman when you post certain things about a woman it is wrong when you see something wrong about a person based on every so ethnic group and you think it's a joke that you put to find that it is wrong with the same way you should feel about a person you know being a victim of a choko that you don't know in the neighborhood you patrol is the same way you should feel about somebody put a chokehold on your mom or your son or someone close to you or someone criticizing the police does what you know that's what it is exactly what it's like and i was simply saying you know my daughter safe the moment you start calling them names and it's kind of like hey guys you can't have it both ways. they're like. yeah because they don't believe they're not that there's no empathy and police work and 200 i'll say there's no such thing as another. big story question the church was. so right

now when we think about motive when anything happens usually the police the news media specially they'll use a citizen social media to sort of make a point identify suspects look for a bout of ah well here she is with that with the patriarchy so that's why she hates men and that's why she did that bang or you know here's some money who was you know pro whatever they had a little lives matter blackflies matter simon this is this is. coming together. looking for motives and evidence to crimes regardless of any sort of civil liberty embley cations of it should citizens like those behind the scenes plainview project be allowed to do the same with government officials and law enforcement agencies so should we be able to go in there and hold them accountable when the rest of us most of our jobs most jobs now require that you you know remember that you work for that

company and social media you can lose your job you can be in trouble at your school you could do any number of things do you think we should start holding politicians and elected officials and public servants like police officers more accountable for these things should there be stricter rules either don't have one at all. or watch what you say mind your mind your p's and q's. is crazy because i kinda want them to have them so we can just know how do you really think that you don't hi but i give you one and i do think that it should be used against situations happen it should be used against them you know how many. video. clips with a guy was waving guns on social media so we need to lock them up when a guy was talking about some of the drugs on social media so that was how we got him when a cop was laughing about black people on social media and this is why we know he doesn't deserve to be employed like on the like you said earlier you can't have it one way. and not the is not

a fan thing it is interesting in this kind of social media culture that this is even become an issue because i think you kind of alluded to it do that's a big one is that we wouldn't know this about these people had we not had social media you would know the officer such and such feels this way about latino people or we would know that on one hand it's great on the other hand i guess the devil's advocate would be like well do we want that many people picking and what would i spend simply be our private lives but we say behind closed doors i'm trying to figure out what that argument would be like or do you mean like social media bangers us like screaming out in the middle of the town square so everybody can. only live just in connecticut there was a police officer social media's going to the neighborhood has a little black kids and i'm a little african brothers and sisters i love them so much. walking down the street . and punching a dude because it's what i think about when i'm saying this is the little black kid

this is what you look like you know what i mean so you know you really love these people or you just terrorizing and enforcing to protect them it's another it's another layer of accountability that i think i really i'm happy that we're seeing people compile these things so that we can better hold people accountable for their action. a lot because at the end of the day that is a reflection of the people who are trusted with protecting their community and if you if you don't if they're saying that i'm lying and i was not i wouldn't trust them or for any i was killed the cops caught a lot of police officers a robot of the city all of the various isn't a little baseball all of it and i'm just looking at it like wow this is should be enough evidence for you that what all of these people are talking about the cops get them sued while out of the would be in prison i got to say thank you as always for a couple fascinating discussion today do you walk it was either a large florida call with author and speaker always a pleasure sir. new research published in the journal of geophysical research and letters has shined light on the origins of the dark side of the moat turns out

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they were so the officers back here they're high again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled his gun and he did it on 3. believe this if you see people protesting because of the going out case these thousands of people. but see below well the sorts of political views you have journalists from are a c.n.n. russia to do you network studio on students not signing the same petition. you know to the 27 team the german newspaper developed published an article claiming that the european union have lost 30000000000 euros as a result of its very anti russian sanctions.

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