Rep. Jimmy Gomez, one of the most vocal members of Congress when it comes to the issue of facial recognition, said his office has met with Amazon over civil rights concerns of its facial recognition platform nine times. The result, which he testified to during the hearing, was that his “concerns only grow day by day.”
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“That just means that it’s more important that Congress acts,” said Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez in response to the Amazon shareholder vote.
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The shareholder meeting came on the same day as a congressional hearing on the use of facial recognition technology. “It’s just more important for Congress to act,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said at the hearing, in response to the Amazon vote.
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), who said he has met with Amazon nine times about his concerns over Rekognition, said the decision to reject those proposals only bolstered his belief that Congress needs to step in.
"I just got word that the shareholders did not end up passing a ban on the sale of Rekognition," Gomez said at the hearing. "That just means that it's more important… Read more »
“This is a perfect issue for our committee to look into,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) told BuzzFeed News in an interview in February 2019. “We have a long list of issues, but this one is at the intersection of privacy, civil liberties, oversight, and the scope of this committee."
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Rep. Gil Cisneros, D-Yorba Linda, Tweeted that the president’s plan is “code” for allowing only certain immigrants into the country and “does not reflect the diversity and strength of our country, and will exclude migrants who have the potential to succeed.” And Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-LosAngeles, said the plan doesn’t have “a chance in hell of becoming law. (@HouseDemocrats will make sure of… Read more »
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., voted for the bill, saying he had his brother and his brother's husband in mind while doing so.
"For far too long, our government has failed to provide our LGBTQ constituents with the civil rights and federal protections they need and deserve," he said in a statement. "But now, with the passage of this historic legislation, we can finally help our communities… Read more »
“Not only do I want to see them address our concerns with the sense of urgency it deserves,” Representative Jimmy Gomez, a California Democrat who has investigated Amazon’s facial recognition practices, told The Times, “but I also want to know if law enforcement is using it in ways that violate civil liberties, and what — if any — protections Amazon has built into the technology to… Read more »
Mitchell says the hardest-to-count House districts — and the most likely to be altered — are held by Democrats Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles, Lucille Roybal-Allard of Downey, Juan Vargas of San Diego, T.J. Cox of Fresno, Jim Costa of Fresno, Nanette Barragan of San Pedro, Tony Cardenas of Los Angeles and Maxine Waters of Los Angeles.
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There are 2.2 million immigrants in California illegally, according to the latest estimate of the Pew Research Center, 100,000 fewer than its previous calculation. Under the U.S. Constitution, they’re supposed to be counted like everyone else. Newsom, the Democratic establishment and activist groups aren’t only worried about undocumented immigrants not being counted. They’re also… Read more »
