Thread by @DefenseFundPdx, Alert! This Wednesday Sept 9th at 2pm Portland City Council will hear [...]

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Alert! This Wednesday Sept 9th at 2pm Portland City Council will hear public testimony on banning facial recognition. If this passes it will be one of the strongest bans on this in the country. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/02/portland-considering-strictest-ban-on-facial-recognition-technology-in-the-us.html

Portland considering strictest ban on facial recognition technology in the U.S.

City officials are considering prohibiting the use of facial recognition technology by government agencies and also private businesses. Other cities have issued bans on use by police and other local...

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/02/portland-considering-strictest-ban-on-facial-recognition-technology-in-the-us.html

Council has set aside two hours for this and it'd great to get a ton of written and verbal testimony in for this. Businesses will push back on this because they want to "protect their property"
Info for the day can be found here:
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/auditor/26997

You can submit written testimony to: cctestimony@portlandoregon.gov
You can sign up to testify in the link in the above Tweet to testify during the hearing. Deadline to sign up in Tuesday Sept 8th at 4 pm.

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