More cops and government agencies are beginning to use facial recognition technology without our knowledge or input.

In the law enforcement’s hands, this technology becomes a tool of dystopian surveillance. Not only can police gather biometric data without your consent, but they can track or target you and your community. Biometric surveillance has massive and troubling implications for the First Amendment. Facial recognition means that law enforcement can know everything from who exactly you spend time with to where you protest and then keep tabs on you afterwards.

On top of this, facial recognition software has been proven to be faulty, inaccurately identifying women and people of color. Examining the accuracy of facial recognition programs reveals that the error rate for white men is much lower than the error rate for black women. This translates to real life situations in which an algorithms cannot correctly identify one black person from another leading to unfair arrests in a population that already over policed and unjustly targeted.

That’s why law enforcement use of facial recognition should be banned.

This tech is so controversial that San Francisco already banned it, and there is growing bipartisan agreement in Congress to ban or pause it at the federal level.

The momentum for change is here. This is the time to tell Congress and your local officials to act now for our basic human rights. privacy.

Sign the petition to tell Congress and your local officials: “Facial recognition surveillance violates our rights and doesn’t make us safer. Pass legislation to ban this invasive spying.”