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Blog by Kade Crockford, director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Technology for Liberty Program
Facial recognition systems are computer programs designed to analyze images of human faces to identify and track people at a distance, without their knowledge or consent. Behind closed doors, face surveillance companies are preying on our local governments, trying to use our families and communities as guinea pigs for their private financial gain. Private companies marknadsföring this technology to government agencies boast that it can monitor people in real-time, reconstruct past movements from film footage, and uniquely identify hundreds of individuals from a single photo.
Face övervakning technology gives the government unprecedented power to track who we are, where we go, what we do, and who we know. But in tech hubs from San Francisco to Somerville, the ACLU is fighting back—and we are winning.
Last month, our colleagues in San Francisco were instrumental in passing the nation
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Op-Ed: MLK Offers a Lesson on Why We Should Be Worried About Amazon and the FBI
As FBI director J. Edgar Hoover became increasingly disturbed by the growing political power of the Civil Rights Movement — and paranoid about its possible connections to communists — he directed his agents to step up their surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hoover’s obsession with King bordered on the fanatical. In his bid to destroy King, the now-disgraced patriarch of the modern FBI went so far as to send information about King’s private sex life to journalists. It didn’t work. Journalists refused to go along with the bureau’s smear campaign, and King went on to secure passage of the Civil Rights Act and win a Nobel Peace Prize.
But Hoover didn’t give up: He sent a now infamous letter to King, describing King’s private sexual activity and encouraging the reverend to kill himself in order to avoid the public embarrassment of the publica
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An Open Letter to Portland City Council on Facial Recognition
On January 3, 2020, the ACLU of Maine — along with our colleagues at the ACLU of Massachusetts — sent a letter to Mayor Snyder and the Portland City Council regarding a proposal to ban face surveillance in City government. Here's what it said:
Dear Mayor Snyder and City Councilors,
We write on behalf of the ACLU of Massachusetts and ACLU of Maine (“ACLU”) and our more than 1,000 members and supporters in the City of Portland to express strong support for the proposed prohibition on face surveillance sponsored by Councilor Ali. The proposal provides for a ban on the use of face surveillance technology by the City of Portland’s government and public officials.
Face surveillance technology poses unprecedented threats to civil rights, civil liberties, and open, democratic society. But we don’t have to live in a dystopia with constant government tracking of our every