Super appreciative of @onekade, @BenForWard3, the City Council, and people of @SomervilleCity for their work making Somerville, MA the first city on the East Coast to adopt an ordinance banning government use of face surveillance technology! https://t.co/iMmQ7NnV8P

— nash (@NaSh12) June 28, 2019

Somerville, Massachusetts just became the first East Coast city to ban the use of face surveillance by local government. https://t.co/ilKs3z0o9c

— EFF (@EFF) June 28, 2019

Yessss! Progress! As with the ban in SF, there's more to do but this is a very good start.

Gizmodo: Face Recognition Surveillance Banned by Second American City.https://t.co/JpKaAlQuuq

— Irenes (many) (@ireneista) June 28, 2019

Boston suburb bans facial recognition software | VentureBeat https://t.co/OUww2tz346

— Brian Hofer (@b_haddy) June 28, 2019

Somerville just banned facial recognition technology ? https://t.co/PtmcuS8N03

— The Tor Project (@torproject) June 28, 2019

Somerville, Massachusetts just became the first East Coast city to ban the use of face surveillance by local government. https://t.co/ilKs3z0o9c

— EFF (@EFF) June 28, 2019

Somerville, Massachusetts just became the second U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition in public space. https://t.co/ykkOi3garg

— Adam Levin (@Adam_K_Levin) June 28, 2019

Somerville, which neighbors Cambridge, Massachusetts, just joined San Francisco in banning the use of facial recognition. Let's be next #Oakland! https://t.co/Hys2cAWWWj

— Presente.Org (@PresenteOrg) June 28, 2019

2 down, somewhere around 90,000 to go.

A Second U.S. City Has Banned Facial Recognition https://t.co/g9oBSrbjyG

— Gregg Housh (@GreggHoush) June 28, 2019

Somerville, Massachusetts just became the second U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition in public space.https://t.co/fVoJqcMLO3

— VICE (@VICE) June 28, 2019

Another U.S. city just banned facial recognition. https://t.co/fVoJqcMLO3

— VICE (@VICE) June 28, 2019

A Second U.S. City Has Banned Facial Recognition - Caroline Haskins @carolineha_ #biometrics #privacy https://t.co/rtu8rqojRh pic.twitter.com/ouBBGWna3v

— Startpage.com (@StartPageSearch) June 28, 2019

Somerville Mass. City Council passes facial recognition ban

“The ban would make Somerville one of the first communities in the nation to prohibit government use of facial recognition software. A similar measure recently passed in San Francisco.”
https://t.co/ywBBk3dgqV

— Mike Crowley (@MichaelFCrowley) June 28, 2019

Somerville, MA becomes the second city in the US to ban government use of face recognition technology. They're part of a larger movement seeking to pause or stop law enforcement and the government's adoption of these potentially dangerous tools.https://t.co/jNa64dZb5o

— Georgetown Privacy (@GeorgetownCPT) June 28, 2019

Somerville City Council passes facial recognition ban ?? @onekade @BenForWard3 https://t.co/NeWCnyFClK

— Max Clermont (@maxclermont) June 28, 2019

Somerville passed a facial recognition technology ban Thursday, making it one of the first cities in the nation to do so https://t.co/2c9Btlkhhv

— Sarah Wu (@sarah_wu_) June 28, 2019

Dear Somerville City Council,

Thank you for passing a facial recognition ban, so we can affirmatively decide if we want to opt in to invasive surveillance tech in the future.

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— Gavi Wolfe (@GaviWolfe) June 28, 2019

Congratulations to @BenForWard3 and Somerville residents on this major victory! #mapoli https://t.co/QGMgSXbODG

— The Real Segun Idowu (@revrenddoctor) June 28, 2019

Home: Somerville City Council passes facial recognition ban https://t.co/J8O832Bc6h

— Erhardt Graeff (@erhardt) June 28, 2019