Letter to Google: Face Surveillance Technology

January 15, 2019 Sundar Pichai Chief Executive Officer Kent Walker Senior Vice President, Global Affairs Google LLC Dear Mr. Pichai and Mr. Walker, We are a coalition of organizations dedicated to protecting civil rights and liberties and safeguarding communities. We are encouraged by the initial steps Google has taken to recognize the harms of invasive surveillance technologies and artificial intelligence. As Mr. Pichai has said, the tech industry has a responsibility to think about the consequences of its technology, it “just can’t build it and then fix it.” We were also encouraged to see…

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