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Weekly Spotlight: Facial ID Faces the Heat

On Thursday, the Senate passed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill, renewing federal aviation programs and establishing new safety and consumer protections for the next five years.

Weekly Spotlight: A Bipartisan Privacy Win in the House

We’re thrilled to share big news with you: On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would effectively close the data broker loophole.

Weekly Spotlight: A Disappointing Bill

On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including Section 702. 

Weekly Spotlight: Biden Policy Protects the Federal Workforce

Over the past few years, we’ve been raising the alarm about the dangers of a second coming of Schedule F, a Trump Administration-era executive order that would have removed job protections for tens of thousands of merit-based federal employees if President Joe Biden hadn’t rescinded it.

Weekly Spotlight: Census Gets an Upgrade

Under a new directive from the Office of Management and Budget, the Census Bureau is going to implement new answers to the question about race and ethnicity.

Weekly Spotlight: More Trouble with the Social Security Watchdog

The saga of trouble at the Social Security Administration’s chief watchdog continues: Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office are back in the news after the release of a preliminary investigation that raised concerns about the office’s past failures to properly notify (or in some cases, notify at all) people who had received disability overpayments before levying exorbitant penalties against them, as part of the office’s anti-fraud program.

Weekly Spotlight: Closing out Sunshine Week

This week, POGO commemorated Sunshine Week by shedding light on the shameful lack of transparency around deaths in law enforcement custody — a crisis that no one, not even the government, knows the full scope of.  

Weekly Spotlight: A Visit to the Border

All eyes were on Texas this week with both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump making coinciding visits to the U.S.-Mexico border to deliver pitches on their plans to increase border security, days after a Gallup poll revealed immigration to be Americans’ most pressing concern.

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