Ban Facial Recognition Europe

Campaign and petition to Ban Facial Recognition in EU
#BanFacialRecognitionEU
initiative by
@PaoloCirio @LaQuadrature @WeSignit

[Paolo CIRIO Art @PaoloCirio]

The @EU_Commission replied to the legal complaint I made for the campaign #BanFacialRecognitionEU
Please no wish-wash only real ban of #facialrecognition.
More about it here:
https://t.co/ceW3ru8vhh

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

Video for #BanFacialRecognitionEU about banning #FacialRecognition in Europe.

Please sign the petition #ReclaimYourFace here:
https://t.co/alPUATYOtL
And follow @ReclaimYourFace

Statement by @PaoloCirio on #BanFacialRecognition:
https://t.co/XuJvIUfnt3
https://t.co/VZWxu57yoM

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

For #BanFacialRecognitionEU campaign a package to the EU institutions with a legal complaint, evidence of violations, and 50000 signatures.
https://t.co/StItbNfVbh

The complaint:
https://t.co/mhDyihIf8n
The violations:
https://t.co/MYLEXBDZtp

Press kit:
https://t.co/OYr3sJYUCb

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

The #BanFacialRecognitionEU petition ended with over 50000 signatures and in 5 languages:
https://t.co/VZWxu57yoM

The full text:
https://t.co/Tk5qJLQKQb
The final legal claims:
https://t.co/mhDyihIf8n

Now please sign the petition #ReclaimYourFace:
https://t.co/alPUATYOtL

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

Please sign the #ReclaimYourFace new petition to ban #biometrics in all #Europe here:

https://t.co/alPUATYOtL

#BanBiometricMassSurveillance #BanThisBS
#BanFacialRecognitionEU
https://t.co/NH8ljdYRbs

[Reclaim Your Face @ReclaimYourFace]

Today, 40 organisations launch the ECI calling on the EU to ban biometric mass surveillance.

Are YOU with us? Sign for a BAN & #ReclaimYourFace.

We act to protect our humanity, a life of dignity and a future shaped by us, not algorithms.

✍️https://t.co/9l6wdwVwzW

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

The campaign #BanFacialRecognitionEU joins the larger campaign #ReclaimYourFace for the banning of #Biometrics in all #Europe:

https://t.co/N1rcaIncqI
https://t.co/NH8ljdYRbs

#BanBiometricMassSurveillance #BanThisBS #BanFacialRecognition #FacialRecognition

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence in #France, #Germany, #Italy, #Greece uses of #FacialRecognition technology led to abuses of fundamental rights, lack of accountability, misspending of public funds for years. EU institutions are responsible.
All cases: https://t.co/MYLEXBDZtp

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence in #Netherlands and #czechrepublic uses of #FacialRecognition technology led to abuses of fundamental rights, lack of accountability, misspending of public funds for years. EU institutions are responsible.
All cases: https://t.co/MYLEXBDZtp

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence in #Sweden, #Scotland, #Poland uses of #FacialRecognition technology led to abuses of fundamental rights, lack of accountability, misspending of public funds for years. EU institutions are responsible.
All cases: https://t.co/MYLEXBDZtp

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence in EUROPEAN BORDERS, EXPORT, and IMPORT with #FacialRecognition technology led to abuses of fundamental rights, lack of accountability, misspending of public funds for years. EU institutions are responsible.
All cases: https://t.co/MYLEXBDZtp

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. March 2020, #Poland’s mandatory Facial Recognition-based app was used to enforce quarantine. It sent the police to the home of anyone that fails to share a selfie on the app within 20 minutes of an alert.
https://t.co/XnFZriN3ES

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. August 2019, #Sweden #FacialRecognition was in use by high-school students to keep track of attendance in the Skelleftea municipality. Later judges and data protection authorities blocked the experimentation in schools. https://t.co/oGcUOG0zM0

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. February 2020, #SCOTLAND Police in Scotland said it hoped to use live Facial Recognition software by 2026 for scanning crowds of people and cross-reference faces with police databases. Currently the plans is on hold:
https://t.co/Ia3HOBkMbV

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. 2019-2020, #Netherlands, The Dutch police maintain a facial recognition database that currently offers information on 1.4M individuals. Facial recognition uses are introduced in smart city contexts:
https://t.co/Ba1uiBxVh8
Via @bitsoffreedom

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. 2019-2020, #Netherlands, the use of biometric surveillance technology is on the rise. In particular we've seen the use of facial recognition in supermarkets, at the airport and at soccer stadiums:
https://t.co/UU7BLvSSdl
Via @bitsoffreedom

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. 2019, in #Greece The Hellenic Police signed a €4M contract with Intracom Telecom software to enable facial recognition and automated fingerprint identification of individuals during police stops:
https://t.co/Akwo9kv30u
Via @Homo_Digitalis_

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. 2019, in #CzechRepublic The Czech data protection authority has ruled that processing data using #facialrecognition technology on a construction site was legal with FaceID for identifying workers on a construction site:
https://t.co/XLUCs46ukQ

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. 2019, in #CzechRepublic the media recently reported that police representatives announced that they had bought top #FacialRecognition software from Cogniware:
https://t.co/zTt5uJKxOR
Via @iure_cz

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. In #Italy use of #FacialRecognition technologies was attempted in the city of Como and other cities have already announced the installation of similar technologies, such as in Turin and Udine:
https://t.co/3IZoc5UxFY
via @HermesCenter

[Ban Facial Recognition Europe @BanFacialRecEU]

#BanFacialRecognitionEU #Evidence. In #Italy use of #FacialRecognition technologies is already widespread. The SARI system acquired by the scientific police has proved to be immediately biased and covered by a veil of extreme secrecy:
https://t.co/v39waxbGkI
via @HermesCenter