{"id":6169,"date":"2019-09-15T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2019-09-15T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:42:03","slug":"help-stop-facial-recognition-technology-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/help-stop-facial-recognition-technology-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Help stop facial recognition technology in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The use of&nbsp;facial&nbsp;and biometric&nbsp;recognition&nbsp;tech is out of control, but we have an opportunity to stop Massachusetts state and local governments from using it.&nbsp; We need your help to get the legislature to pass&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/191\/S1385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S.1385<\/a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/191\/H1538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H.1538<\/a>&nbsp;which would ban governmental use of&nbsp;&#8220;at a distance&#8221; biometric tracking technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can help by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>testifying at the upcoming committee hearing&nbsp;for these bills in person or in writing. Start writing your testimony and&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org?subject=I%20will%20testify!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email us and we will notify you when the hearing is<\/a>;<\/li><li>get a&nbsp;facial&nbsp;recognition&nbsp;ban ordinance introduced in your municipality.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact us if you can help and we will help you<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Search\/FindMyLegislator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact your Massachusetts representative and senator and tell them to oppose&nbsp;facial&nbsp;recognition&nbsp;surveillance<\/a>&nbsp;by supporting both bills;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, we will win this struggle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t forget: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/\">Our party conference is this Saturday, the 21st!<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.piryx.com\/donate\/ZeBuHGQi\/Massachusetts-Pirate-Party\/2019conference\">Register today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of&nbsp;facial&nbsp;and biometric&nbsp;recognition&nbsp;tech is out of control, but we have an opportunity to stop Massachusetts state and local governments from using it.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy","category-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/camera-de-surveillance.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1Bv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}