Sound of the Police

Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched About Face, a new national campaign to end governmental use of facial recognition technology for surveillance at all levels – city, state and federal.

As the project says, the real problem with facial surveillance isn’t that facial recognition is worse at recognizing Black faces than it is at recognizing white faces. Even if this was fixed, it would still put people at risk from state surveillance, overpolicing, and other traditional civil liberties concerns.

There’s a sign up form that will connect you with other people in your area working to stop facial surveillance, an organizers’ toolkit with literature, media guides, and model legislation; and a list of bans, bills and moratoria already in place across America.

Details from Ulysses and the Sirens, 1909. 

Herbert James Draper (British, 1863-1920)