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BOSTON 鈥� Somerville City Council in Massachusetts tonight an ordinance banning city government use of face surveillance technology.

Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the 老澳门开奖结果 of Massachusetts, released the following statement in response:

鈥淪omerville is now the first community on the East Coast to prohibit government use of face recognition surveillance technology, joining a growing nationwide movement to bring the technology under democratic control. The city is sending a bold statement that it won鈥檛 sit by idly while the dystopian technology further outpaces our civil liberties protections and harms privacy, racial and gender justice, and freedom of speech. Massachusetts must also lead the nation by passing a statewide moratorium until there are safeguards in place. We must ensure face surveillance technology doesn鈥檛 get out ahead of our basic rights.鈥�

The Somerville ordinance, like on government use of face surveillance and similar proposals currently under consideration in cities across the country, are part of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 (CCOPS) effort. The CCOPS effort is designed to ensure residents 鈥� through their local governments and elected officials 鈥� are empowered to decide if and how surveillance technologies are used, and to promote government transparency with respect to surveillance technologies.

An currently before Massachusetts legislators on Beacon Hill would establish a on government use of face surveillance and other biometric screening technologies until the legislature imposes checks and balances to protect the public鈥檚 interest.

A new shows 91 percent (91%) of Massachusetts voters think the Commonwealth needs to regulate the government鈥檚 ongoing use of face surveillance technology. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of voters support a moratorium to press pause on government use of face surveillance technology, which is currently unregulated in Massachusetts.

The moratorium enjoys wide bipartisan voter support: Eighty-four percent (84%) of Democrats, 82 percent (82%) of Independents, and 50 percent (50%) of Republicans favor the moratorium currently before Massachusetts legislators.