We would agree completely with your characterization of the dangers posed by facial recognition technology. We see just layers upon layers of concerns.
As has been pointed out by other witnesses today, especially Dr. McPhail, the idea is that there are layers of problems regarding the accuracy of this technology. There are concerns about whether or not we know, without proper regulation, and with so many companies proposing their technology to law enforcement agencies, that they will even be using the most accurate—or will they be using the most accessible, the ones that are targeted more and marketed more towards law enforcement? There's the whole question of the use of law enforcement and intelligence agencies of third party contractors and how that's carried out, the lack of transparency there, and problems with accuracy and bias in the technology that may be promoted to them.
Even if those were to be addressed, as has been mentioned, the targeting of communities of colour is already well known. It cannot be solved simply by improving the technology, but rather, as Dr. McPhail said, it can be exacerbated, because then all of a sudden we have this great tool for better surveilling populations that are already over-policed and over-surveilled. We need to be incredibly—