Toyota is donating today $400,000 to the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) and the Pollinator Partnership (P2) that will be used to enhance 26,000 acres of pollinator habitat across North America over the next five years.
It’s another example about how corporations are awakening to the need to nurture planet earth after centuries of neglect, creating a threat to life and the cessation of business. It also coincides nicely with the Biden Administration’s environmental policies as Democrats emerge as the party helping big business cope with the increasingly dire effects of global warming. Continue reading
Congress Investigating Face Verification Vendor ID.me
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform in a letter has requested detailed documents from ID.me, a company that uses facial recognition technology for identity verification. The Committee’s letter highlighted “serious concerns about the efficacy, privacy, and security of ID.me’s technology” including denial of government benefits because of ID.me’s software and long wait times for verification.
The Oversight and Reform Committee is looking for records detailing all of ID.me’s federal, state, and local contracts, the number of people who submitted face scans to ID.me, the number of facial recognition errors, and information on the company’s use of many facial recognition technologies. Continue reading →