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Here you can find all the tools you need to become an effective ally in the movement to ban biometric mass surveillance.

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TYPES OF BIOMETRIC MASS SURVEILLANCE

General Monitoring

Learn how biometric mass surveillance affects you, whoever you are. It can be anywhere: schools, football matches, cultural events and protest.

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General Monitoring. Testimonial: <i> In Germany, police retrospectively identified footage from the G20 protests to identify protesters. Why have the freedom to go to a protest if this can be used against you? Control is easier if you watch people and they know they are being watched. </i> Benjamin Ignac, Romani researcher and activist from Croatia, living and working in Berlin.

Predictive Policing

Learn how biometric mass surveillance threatens individual autonomy and the presumption of innocence based on your race and class.

Predictive Policing. Testimonial: <i>“The use of technologies like facial recognition can allow them [law enforcement] to evade accountability and amplify bias and discrimination”.</i> Rokhaya Diallo, Journalist, author, filmmaker, activist for racial, gender and religious equality

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Government Databases

Know more about the huge biometric databases that are growing endlessly in Europe and providing a hidden infrastructure for biometric mass surveillance.

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Borders, migrants, and failed humanitarism

Learn how non-EU nationals traveling into the EU are frequently treated as a frontier for experimentation with biometric technologies.

Borders. Testimonials: <i> We are Black and border guards hate us. Their computers hate us too. </i> – Adissu, living without immigration status in Brussels, Belgium, speaking to Dr Petra Molnar for ‘Technological Testing Grounds’

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Social Media and Online scraping

Learn how the photos or videos you put online end up taken and processed by shady private companies and used to train algorithms.

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Testimonial: These tools could “enable state surveillance, commercial monitoring and even stalking on a scale previously unimaginable. To see this powerful surveillance tech marketed to individuals is chilling. It's ripe for stalking and puts women and children at unprecedented risk”. Silkie Carlo, Big Brother Watch

ReclaimYourFace is a movement led by civil society organisations across Europe:

In collaboration with our campaign partners:

Reclaim Your Face is also supported by:

MEP Patrick Breyer, Germany, Greens/EFA
MEP Marcel Kolaja, Czechia, Greens/EFA
MEP Anne-Sophie Pelletier, France, The Left
MEP Kateřina Konečná, Czechia, The Left

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