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Praising Sanders for His Call to Ban Law Enforcement Using Facial Recognition Tools, Digital Rights Group Urges All Presidential Hopefuls to Follow Suit
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
Rights Group Warns Against Amazon Marketing to Law Enforcement 'Dangerous and Invasive' Facial Recognition System It Claims Can Detect People's Fear
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
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"The dystopian surveillance state of our nightmares is being built in plain sight."
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Privacy Advocates Celebrate Court Ruling on Class-Action Suit Targeting Facebook's Facial Recognition Tech
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
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"Both corporations and the government are now on notice that this technology...
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Fueling Calls for Ban, Even a Security Industry Group Thinks Police Partnerships With Amazon Ring Are Dangerous
Julia Conley, staff writer
"When an industry association that represents security and surveillance camera...
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'A Dystopian Surveillance State Being Built in Plain Sight': Pentagon Tests Radar-Equipped Balloons to Spy on Vehicles Across Midwest
To Keep Public Housing From Becoming 'Panopticon of Automated Face Scanning,' Democrats Push Facial Recognition Ban
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'Good News!': With Unanimous Vote, Oakland Joins Growing List of Cities to Ban Facial Recognition Technology
'We Need to Ban It Entirely': New US Campaign Calls for Moratorium on Facial Recognition Surveillance
'This Is a Scandal': Documents Show ICE and FBI Using Facial Recognition to Mine Millions of Driver's License Photos
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Watchdog Groups Call on Congress and Federal Regulators to Impose Moratorium on Facebook's Proposed Cryptocurrency
a facial recognition system for law enforcement
Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology
Critics Lament as 126 House Democrats Join Forces With GOP to Hand Trump 'Terrifying' Mass Domestic Spying Powers
'Bombshell': Facial Recognition Data Collected by US Customs Agency Hacked
AOC
Ocasio-Cortez Ties Concerns Over Unregulated Facial Recognition Technology to 'Global Rise in Authoritarianism and Fascism'
San Francisco Poised to Make History With Law Banning Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Echo Dot Kids Edition
'Alexa, Stop Spying on My Kids': FTC Complaint Charges Amazon's Echo Dot Violates Child Privacy Law

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Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Consumer Groups Urge Congress to Protect Marginalized Communities from Discriminatory Privacy Abuses
Fight for the Future
Congress Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Permanently End the NSA’s Mass Surveillance of Phone Records
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Free Press Action and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Release Proposed 'Online Civil Rights and Privacy Act' to Combat Data Discrimination...
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