From Restore The Fourth:
Friend, It’s time to put an end to facial recognition technology. We’ve seen that FRT is notoriously inaccurate and biased, and has the potential to ruin innocent lives because of a single misidentification. We know that when FRT doesn’t work it can land the wrong person in jail and that even when it does work it is an invasive violation of our civil liberties and privacy. FRT is like being in a constant police line up. If your face ends up in a database that is used in criminal investigations (which is shockingly likely if you have a state ID or use social media). Your photo can be regularly compared against images of suspects without your knowledge or consent—potentially putting you at risk of misidentification and a lengthy legal battle to clear your name. With the viral proliferation of closed circuit televisions feeding data to police departments, real-time crime centers and fusion centers, facial surveillance enables the kind of state controlled censure meted out by China to Uyghurs. This is why we can’t let the government continue to use this technology totally unchecked. Understanding the urgency of reining in biometric surveillance, Senators Ed Markey and Jeff Merkley lead the reintroduction of the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2021 in the senate. If passed this bill would effectively ban government use of highly invasive and deeply problematic facial recognition technology, as well as other biometric surveillance tech. |
Tell your representative to put an end to government use of FRT across the nation and support the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2021 here. |
