New tools of oppression? Here's why Italy banned mass surveillance
Channel: GreensEFA
Date: 2022-05-23

#StopBiometricSurveillance #ReclaimYourFace #AIAct

What is biometric mass surveillance? Why is it so dangerous? And what can we do to ban the use of our biometric data to protect our privacy?

Meet the activists that ended biometric mass surveillance in Italy. Davide Del Monte, Leila Belhadj Mohamed, Riccardo Coluccini, Andrea Quadroni and Luca Zorloni are working hard to protect our digital rights when it comes to facial recognition technologies and public places. They also talk about why biometric mass surveillance is fuelling racism in Europe.

Follow our journey around Milan and Lake Como, Italy and find out how they managed to protect the privacy of the people in Italy.

`We need to ban remote biometric identification, says Pirate Party Member of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, Marcel Kolaja. ’If we allow facial recognition systems in public spaces, then we allow for mass surveillance of every individual.’

Find out more about why we need an AI Act to ban biometric mass surveillance and sign up for more information on the topic here: https://greens.eu/3adfe2x

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