Tomorrow, April 29th, at 7 pm, there is going to be a great presentation on the dangers of facial recognition surveillance. You can register for the event here. This event is being sponsored by some really great orgs: Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice, Bend the Arc Jewish Action: Greater Ann Arbor, CryptoParty Ann Arbor, Liberate Don’t Incarcerate, Survivors Speak, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
Facial recognition technology, especially when used by police is bad. It increases racial disparities in an system that is already rife with them. For example, at least two Black men in Detroit have been arrested and charged with crimes they did not commit based on false facial recognition "matches." According to this BuzzFeed article, the Ann Arbor Police Department has used Clearview AI, a despotic facial recognition software company, for between 51-100 searches.
In my humble opinion, Ann Arbor City Council should ban the police department from using any facial recognition software. If you'd like to learn more, make sure you check out Safety in the time of Surveillance tonight at 7pm. You can also learn more by checking out Ban the Scan A2.
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