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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Jan 8, 2021, 2:30:45 PM1/8/21
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⌘ https://reclaimyourface.eu/
Transparency
Facial recognition is being used across Europe in secretive and
discriminatory ways. What tools are being used? Is there evidence
that it’s really needed? What is it motivated by? Authorities and
companies, we demand explanations.
Red lines
Some uses of biometrics are just too harmful: unfair treatment
based on how we look, no right to express ourselves freely, being
treated as a potential criminal suspect. Only a ban on biometric
mass surveillance can protect us.
Respect for humans
Biometric mass surveillance is designed to manipulate our behaviour
and control what we do. The general public are being used as
experimental test subjects. We demand respect for our free will and
free choices. Reclaim Your face!
See also
Civil society initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance
practices:
⌘ https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative/initiatives/details/2021/000001_en
We call on the European Commission to strictly regulate the use of
biometric technologies in order to avoid undue interference with
fundamental rights. In particular, we ask the Commission to prohibit,
in law and in practice, indiscriminate or arbitrarily-targeted uses of
biometrics which can lead to unlawful mass surveillance. These
intrusive systems must not be developed, deployed (even on a trial
basis) or used by public or private entities insofar as they can lead
to unnecessary or disproportionate interference with people’s
fundamental rights.
Evidence shows that uses of biometric mass surveillance in Member
States and by EU agencies have resulted in violations of EU data
protection law, and unduly restricted people‘s rights including their
privacy, right to free speech, right to protest and not to be
discriminated against. The widespread use of biometric surveillance,
profiling and prediction is a threat to the rule of law and our most
basic freedoms.
In this ECI, we therefore urge the Commission to propose a legal act
which will build upon, and fully respect, the general prohibitions in
the GDPR and the LED to ensure that EU law explicitly and specifically
prohibits biometric mass surveillance.
--
⌘ https://reclaimyourface.eu/
Transparency
Facial recognition is being used across Europe in secretive and
discriminatory ways. What tools are being used? Is there evidence
that it’s really needed? What is it motivated by? Authorities and
companies, we demand explanations.
Red lines
Some uses of biometrics are just too harmful: unfair treatment
based on how we look, no right to express ourselves freely, being
treated as a potential criminal suspect. Only a ban on biometric
mass surveillance can protect us.
Respect for humans
Biometric mass surveillance is designed to manipulate our behaviour
and control what we do. The general public are being used as
experimental test subjects. We demand respect for our free will and
free choices. Reclaim Your face!
See also
Civil society initiative for a ban on biometric mass surveillance
practices:
⌘ https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative/initiatives/details/2021/000001_en
We call on the European Commission to strictly regulate the use of
biometric technologies in order to avoid undue interference with
fundamental rights. In particular, we ask the Commission to prohibit,
in law and in practice, indiscriminate or arbitrarily-targeted uses of
biometrics which can lead to unlawful mass surveillance. These
intrusive systems must not be developed, deployed (even on a trial
basis) or used by public or private entities insofar as they can lead
to unnecessary or disproportionate interference with people’s
fundamental rights.
Evidence shows that uses of biometric mass surveillance in Member
States and by EU agencies have resulted in violations of EU data
protection law, and unduly restricted people‘s rights including their
privacy, right to free speech, right to protest and not to be
discriminated against. The widespread use of biometric surveillance,
profiling and prediction is a threat to the rule of law and our most
basic freedoms.
In this ECI, we therefore urge the Commission to propose a legal act
which will build upon, and fully respect, the general prohibitions in
the GDPR and the LED to ensure that EU law explicitly and specifically
prohibits biometric mass surveillance.
--
⌘ https://reclaimyourface.eu/
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