New Jerseys former attorney general on Ring cameras and facial recognition

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 9 a.m.

In this week\u2019s Vergecast, former New Jersey attorney general Anne Milgram stopped by the studio to talk with Verge editor in chief Nilay Patel and me, senior reporter Colin Lecher.\nAs Nilay notes, Milgram, who also co-hosts the podcast Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara, is \u201cthe first cop we\u2019ve ever had on the show,\u201d and gave some thoughtful responses to questions about surveillance, predictive policing, and more.\n\u201cWe all, I think, have the right reaction, which is we don\u2019t want to use data that\u2019s biased or we don\u2019t want to have problems,\u201d Milgram says. \u201cAnd yet in our personal lives, we give access to a huge amount of information and a lot of it is not public.\u201d\nThe rise of home security systems like Amazon\u2019s Ring camera have raised serious questions about privacy, and Milgram weighed in on the issue. Below is an excerpt for that conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices