{"id":6227,"date":"2019-10-22T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2019-10-21T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T00:49:09","slug":"facial-recognition-moratorium-hearing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/facial-recognition-moratorium-hearing-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial Recognition Moratorium Tech Hearing Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quick reminder that today is\u00a0the\u00a0State &amp; Local Facial Recognition Tech Moratorium (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/191\/S1385\" target=\"_blank\">S.1385<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/191\/H1538\" target=\"_blank\">H.1538<\/a>) hearing before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. That hearing will start at 1pm, and will be in Room A-1\u00a0at the\u00a0State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is vital to have as many Pirates attend the hearing as possible. Even if you choose not to testify in person, your presence there will demonstrate to the committee that we need a facial recognition tech moratorium. The ACLU will have \u201cPress Pause\u201d t-shirts for all supporters of the\u00a0bills and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/action.aclu.org\/webform\/ma-face-surveillance-hearing?ms_aff=MA&amp;initms_aff=MA&amp;ms=191015_PressPause_MA&amp;initms=191015_PressPause_MA&amp;ms_chan=ptp&amp;initms_chan=ptp\">would appreciate it if you told them you plan to attend<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state house is a short walk from the Park St. Green\/Red line MBTA stop.\u00a0You should arrive 20-30 minutes before the planned beginning of the hearing.\u00a0 It may take a bit of time to get through security and the metal detectors, so plan accordingly and travel light.\u00a0If you plan to\u00a0attend\u00a0the whole hearing, you might want to bring a water bottle.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about testifying or submitting written testimony, please <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/19\/right-of-repair-facial-recognition-ban-hearings-this-week\/\">view our earlier blog post on this hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick reminder that today is\u00a0the\u00a0State &amp; Local Facial Recognition Tech Moratorium (S.1385\u00a0&amp;\u00a0H.1538) hearing before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. That hearing will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,9,10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-out-and-about","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-1Cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","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=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6239"}],"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=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}