{"id":9030,"date":"2024-07-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:31:21","slug":"good-bills-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/09\/good-bills-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Good bills need your help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;Massachusetts legislature ends its session on July 31st and several bills need your help to get passed.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Search\/FindMyLegislator\">Please look up your Mass. rep and senator<\/a> and tell them to support them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Location Shield Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/H357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H.357<\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/S148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S.148<\/a>).&nbsp;Maryland banned the sale of cellphone location data. Massachusetts can be next!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An Act establishing the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/H4632\">H.4632<\/a>&nbsp;\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/S2770\">S.2770<\/a>). Less data gathered on us means less data used against us;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facial Recognition Bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/H4359\">H.4359<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/S927\">S.927<\/a>). Disable the police surveillance-&gt;AI pipeline;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fusion center oversight bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/S2758\">S.2758<\/a>). Transparency of government surveillance;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Police military equipment bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/H2348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H.2348<\/a>). Police shouldn&#8217;t have MRAPs, Stingrays and machine guns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Massachusetts legislature ends its session on July 31st and several bills need your help to get passed.&nbsp;Please look up your Mass. rep and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4174,"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":[59,32,10,35,51,57,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-justice","category-slider","category-privacy","category-security","category-surveillance","category-take-action","category-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/body_cameras_shortened.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2lE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030","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=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9031,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}