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Stop Secret Surveillance in San Francisco

Two years after Oakland Privacy put a bug in the ear of San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin about surveillance transparency, San Francisco stands poised to enact it - with a twist.

In addition to use policies, impact reports, audits and legislative oversight, SF's planned ordinance prohibits the use of facial recognition software by any municipal agency - at all.

Say yes to transparency and no to government face surveillance. SF can do what the feds won't and start a national conversation about where we draw the line.

There's a little opposition starting to build, so if you haven't take action, now's the time. Especially if you live in San Francisco, but even if you don't, because the first municipal ban on facial recognition in the nation affects everybody.

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors - Non-sponsors of SSSSFA

Subject: Safety and Transparency Belong Together: Support The Stop Secret Surveillance Act

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I am writing today to ask for your support for the Stop Secret Surveillance Act. San Francisco needs a process to make decisions about the balance between public safety and human rights as technology moves at warp speeds. If we don't consider these questions at the front end, then we'll be considering them at the back end - after bad things happen that we didn't expect. Determining appropriate uses and more importantly, inappropriate uses, for powerful spying equipment is basic common sense. Thinking about how we can mitigate civil rights challenges so our most vulnerable populations are protected in an unequal society is necessary. Drawing the line at equipment that is unacceptably flawed and biased is our responsibility. After the mistakes are made, it is already too late. The Stop Secret Surveillance Act is sound public policy. It bans only one single solitary thing. The use of facial recognition technology which is literally dangerous to those that it fails to identify. Like this 21 year old Brown University student targeted erroneously as a suspect in the Sri Lanka bombings because she was a young dark-skinned female. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/28/brown-student-mistaken-identified-sri-lanka-bombings-suspect/0hP2YwyYi4qrCEdxKZCpZM/story.html In every other case, it allows the surveillance equipment and technologies that San Franciscans want. With the explicit consent and knowledge of their elected representatives. That is how democracy should work. Please support the Stop Secret Surveillance Act.

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