{"id":7370,"date":"2021-07-24T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2021-07-24T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:14:51","slug":"testify-at-the-mass-facial-recognition-commission-on-july-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/24\/testify-at-the-mass-facial-recognition-commission-on-july-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Testify at the Mass. facial recognition commission on July 30th!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Massachusetts legislature&#8217;s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/frcommissionma.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facial&nbsp;Recognition Commission<\/a>&nbsp;will hear public testimony on Friday, July 30. The commission is tasked with studying police use of facial recognition&nbsp;technology&nbsp;and reporting back to the legislature about how to strengthen existing legal protections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hearing will start at 11am and&nbsp;will be virtual.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/frcommissionma.com\/minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can find minutes from past hearings<\/a>.&nbsp;We&#8217;d like to get as many people as possible lined up to speak to the commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf8FCH5mrhe9jvokp8Ov56wnCuTiff5G3XqzCywMa2GQvlDdQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to testify at the commission&#8217;s site by 5pm on&nbsp;Thursday, July 29th<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/event\/info?reset=1&amp;id=62\">signup to coordinate our testimony, testimony by Pirates and to get a reminder about the hearing<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before and during the hearing, we will discuss the bills at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/discuss.masspirates.org\/riot\/#\/room\/#masspirates-discussion:matrix.org\">https:\/\/discuss.masspirates.org\/riot\/#\/room\/#masspirates-discussion:matrix.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts legislature&#8217;s&nbsp;Facial&nbsp;Recognition Commission&nbsp;will hear public testimony on Friday, July 30. The commission is tasked with studying police use of facial recognition&nbsp;technology&nbsp;and reporting&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":[32,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","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-1US","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","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=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7374"}],"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=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}