Our win in California this week is a reminder that democracy gives us the power as a society to reject surveillance that is invasive, discriminatory, and wide-reaching.

We hope you’ll join our coalition in this fight. https://t.co/3PJZdcmuZ7

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 11, 2019

Victory!

Governor Newsom has signed AB 1215 into law. The new law enacts a three-year moratorium on the use of face recognition, or other forms of biometric data collection, in combination with police body cameras. https://t.co/g9EhxuN2x6

— EFF (@EFF) October 9, 2019

California has passed a law temporarily banning police officers from installing facial recognition software on their body cameras: https://t.co/xBHFCs2pPw via @engadget.

— PEN America (@PENamerica) October 10, 2019

California's new police body cam law blocks the use of facial recognition https://t.co/Z04d9DWmpV via @engadget

— Cheryl (@CherylMorrisW) October 9, 2019

California's new police body cam law blocks the use of facial recognition: In August, backers of California's Body Camera Accountability Act pointed out a test of facial recognition software that identified 26 state lawmakers as criminals. They argued it… https://t.co/iVciNsqCvJ pic.twitter.com/KeKb7cvbAa

— Zion Tech Group (@ZionTechGroup2) October 9, 2019

California's AB 1215 "pertains to biometric surveillance in general. This potentially includes other forms of identification, like gait analysis, that could be gathered from police body cam videos." https://t.co/FIC3uoz57x

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 11, 2019

California just scored a major privacy win against facial-recognition tech https://t.co/AatGsXT9o2

— FutureShift (@futureshift) October 9, 2019

"[California], the state that many major American tech companies call home, moved to ban the use of facial-recognition technology on recordings gathered by police officer cameras... being hailed as a win by privacy advocates across the state." #privacy https://t.co/k5lPUl9xFz

— amber mac (@ambermac) October 10, 2019

Our win in California this week is a reminder that democracy gives us the power as a society to reject surveillance that is invasive, discriminatory, and wide-reaching.

We hope you’ll join our coalition in this fight. https://t.co/3PJZdcmuZ7

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 11, 2019

Face surveillance isn’t inevitable. We can — and should — fight hard to protect our communities from this dystopian technology. https://t.co/7s3SyNowDa #PressPause

— ACLU Massachusetts (@ACLU_Mass) October 12, 2019

The state of California just made it clear: face surveillance isn’t inevitable.

I wrote about our movement for @ACLU's blog ⤵️ https://t.co/3PJZdcmuZ7

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 11, 2019

"The threat is no longer science fiction," writes @Matt_Cagle for the @ACLU Free Future blog https://t.co/gQCpcELU2G

— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) October 11, 2019

California's "state-wide law keeps thousands of body cameras used by police officers from being transformed into roving surveillance devices that track our faces, voices, and even the unique way we walk." https://t.co/3PJZdcmuZ7

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 11, 2019

Earlier this week CA passed a law banning facial recognition technology from police body cams so that cop cameras can't become roving surveillance devices that track our faces, voices, and even the way we walk. Other states and cities need to do the same. https://t.co/qbJ8MNywaL

— Ezekiel Edwards (@EzekielACLU) October 11, 2019

Great development - no California police depts will use facial recognition tech on their body cams for at least the next three years https://t.co/dWR0bmcD56

— Rachel Levinson-Waldman (@RachelBLevinson) October 10, 2019

Meanwhile, California just enacted a law preventing police body cameras from becoming roving face & biometric surveillance devices. We can win. https://t.co/zyOrmMGS5X #AB1215 https://t.co/JPJpCz0BpZ

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 9, 2019

Without even knowing if any LE agency even does this, California bans use of facial recognition software on body cameras for 3 years- takes effect at the start of 2020 and expires after three years. Ting initially proposed a permanent ban on the technology https://t.co/QcvyK4xnNc

— True Blue Warriors (@TruBluWarriors) October 9, 2019

"The new law is welcome news for privacy advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union — a group that also worries about minorities being misidentified if the technology is deployed," writes @BryanRAnderson in @sacbee_news https://t.co/x3cHBn0YFK

— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) October 9, 2019

New law bans California cops from using facial recognition tech on body cameras https://t.co/PSC9DNAXP0

— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) October 9, 2019

New law bans California cops from using facial recognition tech on body cameras https://t.co/aayUEiGhnm

— Capitol Alert (@CapitolAlert) October 9, 2019

This bill is co-sponsored by a broad civil rights coalition that includes the ACLU of California, @CAIRSFBA, @mediajustice, @fightfortheftr, @ColorOfChange & @twrling. https://t.co/rDVvnGFSYi https://t.co/w0dzaFOmyB

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) September 6, 2019

Victory!

Governor Newsom has signed AB 1215 into law. The new law enacts a three-year moratorium on the use of face recognition, or other forms of biometric data collection, in combination with police body cameras. https://t.co/g9EhxuN2x6

— EFF (@EFF) October 9, 2019

California is "prohibiting police departments from outfitting body cameras with technology to identify people through their facial features or other biometric traits." ?https://t.co/quzW7i10yV

— The Tor Project (@torproject) October 9, 2019

"[California] Gov. @GavinNewsom signed AB1215 on Tuesday, prohibiting police departments from outfitting #bodycameras with technology to identify people through their facial features or other biometric traits. Law takes effect Jan. 1:" #facialrecognitionhttps://t.co/gjwb7vFCtX

— Center for Democracy & Technology (@CenDemTech) October 10, 2019

California blocks police from using facial recognition in body cameras - https://t.co/CHeXbx3lcj https://t.co/KrLvwFL89N

— Oakland Privacy (@OaklandPrivacy) October 9, 2019

캘리포니아는 얼굴 인식 기술에 대한 프라이버시의 큰 승리를 거두었습니다. https://t.co/N9kuVznZZR
• "이 법안은 법 집행 기관 또는 법 집행관이 경찰 카메라 또는 경찰관 카메라가 수집한 데이터와 관련하여 생체 인식 감시 시스템을 설치, 활성화 또는 사용하는 것을 금지합니다"라고 말합니다.

— editoy (@editoy) October 13, 2019

Building on the ACLU-led campaign behind San Francisco’s ban on government face recognition, California this week enacted a law that blocks police from using body cameras to spy on the public. https://t.co/3PJZdcmuZ7

— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 12, 2019