<![CDATA[On March 27, 2019, Francella Ochillo, the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Vice President of Policy & General Counsel, presented on baseline requirements for federal privacy legislation at Access Now’s Data Privacy Summit. The conference included a series of panel discussions with speakers from various ends of the political spectrum. They discussed the state of the data ecosystem and need for a legislative response. ]]>
<![CDATA[The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) joined 177 civil rights and civil liberties groups in an amicus brief opposing an untested and dangerous citizenship question being added to the 2020 Census. Arguments outlined in the brief, NY v. Commerce submitted by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Brennan Center for Justice, debunk the federal government’s argument that a citizenship question is required to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Additionally, the brief explains why the question will inevitably lead to an undercount of historically underrepresented communities that will, in turn, lose federal funding and representation.]]>
<![CDATA[On March 25, 2019, the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Policy Counsel, Daiquiri Ryan, presented at Algorithmic Exclusion: How Data Deserts in the U.S. Perpetuate Inequity hosted by the Georgetown University Law Center Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Public Knowledge, and the Goodfriend Group. Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence gave moving keynote remarks on the urgency and importance of regulating artificial intelligence as a social justice priority. Other distinguished panelists from the event included Yosef Getachew (Common Cause), Mike Muse (Muse Recordings), Sean Perryman (Internet Association), Keith Dowd (U Group), and Ben Moncreif (C Spire).]]>
