[As submitted to the IAPP]

Dear Editors,

I listed constituent objections to Microsoft running up the privacy flag here.

Facial Recognition Technology and other commercialized versions of biometrics were driven by the will of DARPA investors to get their money and mass surveillance intelligence back to the Department of Defense. While I realize this is under-reported, you should understand that the millions of DoD civilian servants, their dependents, veterans and active service members are all familiar with base mandates for use and employment requirements of biometric ID. There is literally a standing army of non consenting Americans who were compelled to use biometrics in public service. Do not underestimate what they have to tell the public about FRT or any other biometric technology.

Whatever this is about, it's not about Julie Brill. When she carried the USG, she was impotent against [Obama’s] NatSec forces, PRISM and violence to 4th Amendment, as FTC head. [So will be all FTC agency heads. This is a principled reason why “privacy” cannot be a consumer matter delegated to the FTC. DoD and DNI overreach and employment of the private sector will continue, as federal contractors. While predictably uncaring anti-personal liberty Berkeley CS grads, local Communitarians standing behind the Lenin statue in Seattle’s Fremont district, DSA lefitists, and Obama “flat earthers” make their nests on mass surveillance, China scraped everyone. Brill, like many Obama supporters, now carries the burdensome voting record of tacit support of his mass surveillance plan. She cannot carry the flag of public trust from those whom she failed in America’s computing contractor. That leaves the very hard policy work to the people who have to live with what Washington State permits as law.]

Sincerely,

Sheila Dean