Smart Procurement

This guidance for governments on protecting civil liberties when procuring technology identifies essential guardrails for ensuring that risks to privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights are adequately considered and addressed whenever the government seeks to procure or utilize technology that affects people. Heightened connectivity, more sophisticated cameras and sensors, and the emergence of powerful artificial intelligence (“AI”) applications are a few of the factors driving governments across the country to seek out new technologies, often times without considering potentially grave implications for the public interest.