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Public Voice Launches Petition for an International Moratorium on Using Facial Recognition for Mass Surveillance

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Coming out of the Privacy Commissioners’ Conference in Albania, Public Voice is launching a petition for an international moratorium on using facial recognition software for mass surveillance.

You can sign on as an individual or an organization. I did. You should as well. No, I don’t think that countries will magically adopt this moratorium. But it’s important for us all to register our dissent.

Tags: biometrics, face recognition, privacy, surveillance

Posted on October 22, 2019 at 10:12 AM23 Comments

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