US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
PCLOB Board Member Travis LeBlanc analyzes government surveillance authorities, constitutional protections, and civil liberties oversight.
Summary
Travis LeBlanc, board member of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), delivers a keynote on federal surveillance oversight and civil liberties protections in the Ethics Village [00:00].
LeBlanc reviews the statutory mandate of PCLOB in monitoring executive branch counterterrorism programs, highlighting the board's deep-dive oversight review of the National Security Agency's (NSA) Section 215 call detail record (CDR) bulk metadata collection program [09:35]. He addresses emerging ethical challenges at the intersection of privacy and technology, examining racial bias in commercial facial recognition algorithms deployed by federal agencies [19:30], emergency data tracking during public health crises [29:15], and whether Congress should expand PCLOB's jurisdiction beyond counterterrorism to broader surveillance and commercial data surveillance [38:35, 49:05].
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