We're trying to get 1 million EU citizens to sign our European Citizen's Initative to tell the European Commission to ban biometric mass surveillance.

Unfortunately if you're not an EU citizen you can't sign this petition BUT you should still be worried about facial recognition - and - if you're in the US - you can sign this peition aimed at banning facial recognition federally being run by a coalition of organisations including Fight for the Future and Colour of Change.

Facial recognition, and other forms of biometric mass surveillance, stand against our fundamental rights and values, but government and companies are still buying, installing, and using it despite repeated studies suggesting it's racist and doesn't always work very well with terrible consequences. Even if the technology wasn't flawed it would still be deeply invasive, with the potential to create a surveillance regime beyond any we've seen before.

We're also working with our partners around the world to challenge facial recognition as it pops up in countries like Uganda and to challenge individual companies who take up facial recognition or who's practices fall short.

We'll be here from 10am BST/ 3am CA PST on the 16th until 4pm BST / 11:00 PST on the 18th!

We are: Edin - Advocacy Director at PI (using /privacyintl) Ioannis - Legal Officer at PI (using /privacyintl) Nuno - Technologist at PI (using /privacyintl) Caitlin - Campaigns Officer at PI (using /privacyintl) Ella - Policy and Campaigns Officer at EDRi (using /Ella_from_EDRi)