The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed on July 26, 1990, aspired to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities. Today, technology is a major barrier to realizing that promise.
on speech both in and outside of school. As is the case with electronic visit verification, many of these concerns—data privacy, surveillance, and personal privacy—often manifest simultaneously, thus amplifying their effects.In practice, EVV can look different depending on the state—for example, some states use mobile apps that require Medicaid-funded home-care workers to submit photographs of the disabled person to whom they are providing care periodically throughout the day.
that “Electronic visit verification is the equivalent of putting an ankle monitor on people with disabilities and telling us where we can and can’t go. It turns having a disability into a crime.”How Online Job Applications Exclude Hundreds of Thousands of AmericansThe harms that disabled people already experience as a result of EVV would only be amplified in the case of a data breach or cyberattack.
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