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2/7 Hundreds of thousands of people across Europe have made it clear:

We want to keep our public spaces free of #FacialRecognitionand other biometric #MassSurveillance, including both 'real-time' and 'post'

3/7 We call on MEPs to listen to people's voices when they vote on the #AIAct next week

They must maintain the bans on #BMS agreed to by @EP_SingleMarket & @EP_Justice .

The bans are necessary to protect #HumanRights & prevent the EU from descending into a surveillance dystopia.

4/7 The #AIAct should include bans on:

'Real-time' and 'post' forms of remote biometric identification (RBI), such as public #FacialRecognition
Emotion recognition
Automated recognition of gender, sexuality and ethnicity (biometric categorisation)

5/7 These invasive technologies will lead to a severe chilling effect on free expression, discrimination, and the violation of #RightToPrivacy.

@europarl_en , hundreds of thousands of people are calling on you - protect people’s rights & ban biometric #MassSurveillance!

6/7 The 250,000+ signatures represent almost 80 diverse digital rights & social justice orgs across Europe

Thanks to petitions by @reclaimyourface, @edri, All Out, @accessnow, @amnesty_digital_de, @algorithmwatch, @digiges, Big Brother Watch, Ligue des droits humains & Ban Facial Recognition Europe