{"id":1475,"date":"2022-01-26T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ilit\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2022-08-23T19:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:11:41","slug":"temple-law-confronts-policy-gaps-for-emerging-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ilit\/temple-law-confronts-policy-gaps-for-emerging-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Law Confronts Policy Gaps for Emerging Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ed DeLuca LAW ’23<\/a>
iLIT Fellow
Sarbjot Kaur Dhillon LAW ’23<\/a>
iLIT Fellow
Bianca Evans LAW ’22<\/a>
iLIT Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newly founded institute advocates for federal regulation of AI-enabled biometrics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology boom of the last several decades showcases incredible feats of human ingenuity. Biometric technology in particular has quickly and quietly embedded itself into our lives as we monitor our kids, calories, and homes through our phones. However, as we idly scroll, we are increasingly being watched. For example, the Philadelphia Police Department has access<\/a> to more than 1,800 surveillance cameras through one of a growing number of fusion centers in the United States, operated by state and local law enforcement in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Pennsylvania driver\u2019s license photos and records feed into<\/a> the state\u2019s law enforcement database, JNET, which operates a facial recognition system called JFRS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As humankind continues to invent greater, more powerful, and potentially more intrusive tech, Temple University\u2019s newly founded Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology<\/a> (iLIT) seeks to help regulate them by focusing on practical engagement and the human dimension to making and using technology. Its mission is to deliver equity, bridge academic and practical boundaries, and inform new approaches to technological innovation in the public interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temple\u2019s iLIT has hit the ground running. Last October, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced an initiative to design a \u201cBill of Rights for an AI-Powered World,\u201d and iLIT teamed up with human rights experts at the Digital Welfare State & Human Rights Project<\/a> at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law to prepare a response<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iLIT & the NYU team argued that biometric identification technologies, such as facial recognition and more traditional modes like fingerprint-based identification systems, can pose existential threats to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The authors consulted with a group of technologists and advocates from countries where a range of systems have been deployed, including Jamaica, India, Kenya, Uganda, and Ireland, and highlighted a recurring theme: biometric technology generates and exacerbates patterns of social exclusion, as well as direct and indirect discrimination. These technologies are increasingly affecting access, availability, affordability, and quality of fundamental public services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iLIT provided this international and comparative information to support a call<\/a> for OSTP to broaden its perspective on the social, economic, and political impacts of AI-enabled biometric technologies. The submission also urges OSTP to establish immediate checks on the deployment of some of the most high-risk and contested tools, including an immediate moratorium on the mandatory use of biometrics in critical sectors \u2013 such as health, education, and welfare \u2013allowing time and space for democratic oversight mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by Laura Bingham, a globally recognized expert on human rights, nationality, and migration law,  iLIT is set to expand its practice. The institute is collaborating with the Sheller Center for Social Justice\u2019s Systemic Justice Clinic to research law enforcement surveillance practices in Philadelphia, hosting a scholarship and mentoring program for students researching technology\u2019s impact on society, and organizing a Mozilla Festival<\/a> session on digital colonialism this March, and we are just getting started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These projects will further iLIT\u2019s goal of advocating for more effective regulations regarding emerging technologies and their impact on human rights. As ingenuity continues to generate extraordinary technological developments, iLIT is committed to harnessing the power and creativity of Temple University\u2019s community to drive future innovation in a direction that benefits all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions about this post? Drop us a line at lawcomm@temple.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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