{"id":6575,"date":"2020-07-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2020-07-02T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:09:33","slug":"boston-and-easthampton-ban-face-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/02\/boston-and-easthampton-ban-face-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston and Easthampton ban face surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, the Boston City Council&nbsp;voted 13-0 to pass a&nbsp;ban&nbsp;face surveillance by all city departments. The mayor approved the ordinance as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the Easthampton city council also voted unanimously to ban city use of face surveillance technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to everyone who helped get these bans passed and to the Mass. ACLU and Restore the 4th for their consistent advocacy for a ban on face surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While you are here, <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/earn-it-act-committee-vote-thursday\/\">today the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the EARN IT Act<\/a>, which will harm our ability to communicate securely and in private. While Senators Warren and Markey aren&#8217;t on the committee, now is the time to call and urge them to put a hold on the EARN It Act. Call them at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Warren: Senate office at (202) 224-4543. Her local offices are at (617) 565-3170 \/ (413) 788-2690<\/li><li>Markey: Senate office at (202) 224-2742. His local office is at (617) 565-8519<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you wish to contact Senators on the committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noearnitact.org\/\">use Fight for the Future&#8217;s phone tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Boston City Council&nbsp;voted 13-0 to pass a&nbsp;ban&nbsp;face surveillance by all city departments. The mayor approved the ordinance as well. Yesterday, the&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":[32,10,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy","category-surveillance","category-take-action"],"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-1I3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","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=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions\/6579"}],"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=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}