Our last two presidents have massively expanded surveillance of American citizens, while at the same time, rapidly changing technology has allowed surveillance tools once only available to the highest ranks of government to trickle down to local police. Just weeks before the beginning of the new administration, Cato gathered experts to survey the privacy landscape and what may lie ahead. Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, delivered the keynote address, where he discussed the impact of surveillance on people of color, immigrants, and other minorities. Facial recognition technology, for example, is 5–10 percent less accurate when seeking to identify African‐​American, female, or young faces, as opposed to white, male, or older faces. Thus, this technology is less accurate for the demographic it is most likely to be used on. Other talks throughout the day addressed how best to counter violent extremism while protecting individual and religious liberty, and ways that local police are abusing surveillance technology. The day closed with a discussion on the state of surveillance between civil liberties advocate Jennifer Granick of Stanford University and Alexander Joel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, moderated by Charlie Savage of the New York Times. Granick critiqued the intelligence community’s lack of transparency, saying that the public deserves to understand what kind of surveillance they may be subjected to.