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Dear Friend,
As you know, facial recognition technology is among the most dangerous forms of surveillance — especially for communities of color. And it’s spreading across the country like wildfire.
Our digital civil rights are at stake. Tell your lawmakers to ban facial recognition.
Police departments and government agencies are increasingly using this invasive technology to monitor us everywhere we go, targeting vulnerable populations for arrest, and deporting migrant families.1
Worse, we know facial recognition is incredibly inaccurate and racist. It systematically misidentifies Black women and other people of color, increasing our already higher risk of being criminalized.2
Yet, our efforts to fight back against this technology are working. Just this week Team MediaJustice helped pass a state bill in California preventing police officers from installing facial recognition in their body-cameras.3
And now we have word that Congress is about to introduce bipartisan legislation to address this issue. It's time to capture this momentum and flood our lawmakers with emails and calls.
Click here to tell your local, state, and federal officials to ban facial recognition.
Facial recognition is so dangerous that three US cities have already banned it. There is growing consensus that this technology allows for the automation of discrimination and social control. It can’t be fixed with regulation, we need to ban it.
We’re joining 30 organizations in calling on lawmakers to ban government and law enforcement use of face recognition surveillance. Click here to take action and add your name.
In solidarity,
Myaisha and the rest of Team MediaJustice
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Sources:
[1] Buzzfeed
[2] MIT News
[3] MediaJustice
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