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🎉🎉Lawmakers in the House and Senate have officially re-introduced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2023, which would effectively ban law enforcement use of facial recognition in the United States. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-03-07-massive-coalition-throws-weight-behind-reintroduced-facial-recognition-ban-bill
Massive coalition throws weight behind reintroduced facial recognition ban bill

Today, lawmakers in the House and Senate jointly re-introduced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2023, which would effectively ban law enforcement use of facial recognition in the United States. The bill is sponsored by Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Ron Wyden […]

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Mar 8, 2023 at 6:20pmWeb
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Along with dozens of coalition partners and thousands of action takers, we've been calling on lawmakers to #BanFacialRecognition for years, because the tech is invasive, biased, and does more harm than good. https://banfacialrecognition.com/
Ban Facial Recognition

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There have been more stories of Black men being misidentified by facial recognition and wrongfully arrested. As 🐦SenMarkey says, these tools pose a personal threat to our civil liberties, a threat disproportionately felt by marginalized communities.

QT SenMarkey: In 2022, Alonzo Sawyer, a Black man from Maryland, was falsely identified and arrested for assaulting a bus driver and stealing her phone. He spent nine days in prison.

Show threadFight for the FutureMar 8, 2023
From police tracking protesters to TSA scanning faces of travelers in airports, the tech is spreading. We have to stop this now. Congress must pass the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act to put an end to this terrible technology.