Kade Crockford

Director, Technology for Liberty Program

Shankar Narayan, legislative director of the ACLU of Washington, left, speaks at a news conference outside Amazon headquarters, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Seattle. Representatives of community-based organizations urged Amazon to stop selling its face surveillance system, Rekognition, to the government. They later delivered the petitions to Amazon. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

... [F]ace recognition systems fundamentally change the balance of power between the people and the government.

Massachusetts Should Ban Face Recognition Technology

In this March 12, 2015, file photo, Seattle police officer Debra Pelich, right, wears a video camera on her eyeglasses as she talks with Alex Legesse before a small community gathering in Seattle. While the Seattle Police Department bars officers from using real-time facial recognition in body camera video, privacy activists are concerned that a proliferation of the technology could turn the cameras into tools of mass surveillance. The ACLU and other organizations on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, asked Amazon to stop selling its facial-recognition tool, called Rekognition, to law enforcement agencies. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

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Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, announces features of the new iPhone X at the Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple campus on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in Cupertino, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, described the new iPhone X's face recognition system Sept. 12, 2017, in Cupertino, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

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