TELL LAWMAKERS: REGULATE FACE SURVEILLANCE

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In 2020, Massachusetts lawmakers passed strong face surveillance legislation, but Governor Baker blocked these commonsense limits on a dangerous and racially biased technology. The compromise law he signed does not address the dangers that face surveillance poses to our most cherished freedoms.

We're calling on lawmakers once again to support the stronger legislation they enacted in 2020, which would prevent government agencies from using face surveillance to track people, prohibit the use of face surveillance in schools, require police to seek a warrant before using image matching technology to investigate serious crimes, and let defendants know when the technology has been used to implicate them in criminal investigations.

Make sure lawmakers know that we can't have racial justice without reining in racist, dystopian surveillance!

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As your constituent, I urge you to support "An Act to regulate face surveillance" (HD3228, filed by Reps. Dave Rogers and Orlando Ramos; SD 2134, filed by Sen. Cynthia Creem).

This bill would strengthen safeguards surrounding government use of face surveillance-a dangerous, racially biased, and largely unregulated technology that threatens our civil rights and civil liberties.

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As you probably know, face surveillance refers to technology that can screen, identify, and surveil people from a distance based on their unique facial features. It poses such a threat to our Commonwealth that the legislature moved to put in place strong, comprehensive safeguards as part of the 2020 policing bill-before Gov. Baker returned the legislation with amendments that severely undermined the legislature's intent.

This bill reaffirms the House and Senate's original regulatory approach from 2020. It will put in place commonsense checks and balances on government use of face surveillance by ensuring that government agencies cannot track every person's activities in public places, that Black men are no longer exposed to increased risk of false arrest, and that defendants have access to evidence against them derived from face surveillance.

Despite the legislature's efforts to date, I'm deeply concerned about the spread of this technology, and by the lack of meaningful safeguards against its misuse.

The legislature accomplished some great things in 2020, even in the midst of a crisis, but face surveillance remains unfinished business. I urge you to support strong regulations to get the job done.

Sincerely,

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TELL LAWMAKERS: REGULATE FACE SURVEILLANCE

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