Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance!
In February 2021, we are launching a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI)
Join the
people who are already part of the movement
The civil society coalition protecting our dignity, our communities and our public space. We demand:
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!
🏙️ Belgrade, Summer 2020
Together, concerned citizens and SHARE Foundation
reveal and resist 1001 (and counting!) of Belgrade's secretive Huawei facial recognition cameras across 447 locations, in the crowdsourced
Hiljade Kamera project.
#ReclaimyourFace
⚖️ Marseille, February 2020
The first success against facial recognition in France is led by digital rights organisation La Quadrature du Net.
Following a legal challenge, the Marseille Court rejects the inherently disproportionate use of facial recognition in French schools.
#ReclaimYourFace
🏆 Prague, March 2020
Civil society group Iuridicum Remedium awarded the city of Prague
the only positive award in the Big Brother Awards
for rejecting a request from the police to install facial recognition cameras in Prague
#ReclaimYourFace
🛒 Amsterdam, December 2019
Under public pressure from digital rights group Bits of Freedom,
Dutch supermarket Jumbo quits its use
of facial recognition surveillance technologies!
#ReclaimYourFace
👀 Como, 2020
Thanks to the timely investigations of journalists with the help of
digital human rights group Hermes Center, an opaque and dystopian experiment with
biometric surveillance cameras is stopped.
#ReclaimYourFace
📹 Greece, April 2020
Digital rights advocates Homo Digitalis
expose an unlawful EU-funded "smart" policing project
by the Hellenic Police. Investigations proved that the police
had a legal duty to carry out a data protection impact assessment (DPIA). But when challenged, the police were unable to provide a DPIA.
#ReclaimyourFace
