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Students Across the Country Call for a Back-to-School Ban on Facial Recognition
This back-to-school season, students, parents, and activists across the country are calling on the U.S. Department of Education and state education agencies to ban the use of facial recognition technology in schools. Fight for the Future and Encode Justice partnered up to host actions in California, D.C., Georgia, and New York on September 27th and […]
On Friday, Fight for the Future, Defending Rights & Dissent, and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) hand-delivered nearly 12,000 petition signatures to the U.S. Department of Education, calling for a ban on facial recognition in school. Organizers are specifically calling on the U.S. Department of Education to fulfill its responsibilities under the White House’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence by putting out a guidance advising schools to reject facial recognition technology. “Surveillance tech companies are maliciously peddling facial recognition to schools, putting students, teachers, and staff in danger just to make a buck,” said Caitlin Seeley George, campaigns and managing director at Fight for the Future.
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