NCIL believes that EVV threatens decades of advocacy work.

• People with disabilities have the right to control our own lives and destinies.
• EVV in all forms erodes consumer rights and eliminates consumers’ ability to direct their care.
• GPS and biometrics are further shrinking the chronically inadequate pool of available home care workers, as personal assistants leave the field completely due to privacy violations, and inadequate wages and benefits.
• The burgeoning EVV industry is not forthcoming about the data it collects and stores. Threats to identity protection and digital privacy breaches should be eliminated where possible.
• Stakeholder groups must include and empower people with disabilities to be drivers and experts in the development of EVV systems and policies that uphold the freedoms, rights, dignity, privacy and independence of people with disabilities.
• The federal EVV mandate is a massive financial giveaway to technology vendors of EVV systems. While many vendors tout the need for EVV as a method to reduce fraud, data demonstrates consumers and personal assistants are not a warranted source of these allegations.