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FSG joins the #ReclaimYourFace campaign to limit the use of surveillance technologies in public spaces [editar]

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On February 17, the Reclaim Your Face campaign is launched, a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) led by various civil rights organizations in Europe

The Reclaim Your Face Coalition:

• It is a civil society movement to protect European public spaces, and people's bodies and faces, from invasive, intrusive and disproportionate biometric mass surveillance practices such as remote facial recognition.
• It has officially registered an ECI for the legal prohibition of public uses of biometric technologies that could lead to mass surveillance, as one of the public actions of our #ReclaimYourFace campaign.

https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative/initiatives/details/2021/000001_en

The requierements for signing are:

• Any European citizen whith the minimum age required to vote in European elections (depending on the rules of a country) can sign the ECI to support this proposal for a new law to limit how they can be use biometric technologies in public spaces.
• The collection of signatures will be active for 12 months: it opens on Wednesday, February 17, 2021

From the FSG we consider esential and important to support this campaign due to to guarantee respect for privacy and human rights in the use of surveillance technologies, and possible racial or discriminatory biases. We have found for years that the Roma community is subject to excessive surveillance in various social settings: racial profilling, in shopping centers (especially Roma women), disproportionaltely controls in certain neighborhoods, etc. For this reason, we want to join this campaign, to demand a limitation of the use of these technologies, and we encourage all those who wish to sign on the web https://reclaimyourface.eu from February 17.

You can follow the campaign in networks in the hashtag #ReclaimYourFace

Twitter: @reclaimyourface 

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