Defend free speech. Fight surveillance. Support innovation.

Government use of face surveillance technology chills free speech, threatens residents’ privacy, and amplifies historical bias in our criminal system.

From San Francisco, California to Somerville, Massachusetts, communities are coming together to demand an about-face on the proliferation of government use of this especially pernicious form of surveillance and biometric data collection.

Join us in ending government use of face surveillance in our communities.

After months of working toward a bill that would have brought modest but necessary reforms to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, efforts to advance and improve the bill have been suspended. With the March 15 expiration looming, this inaction gives the intelligence community and its allies in Congress the chance to propose a quick and easy solution: a full and clean reauthorization of the invasive surveillance powers continued in Section 215.

We cannot afford any extension of a massive unchallenged surveillance system.

This month it was suddenly announced that the nonprofit that owns the .ORG domain registry was planning to sell it to a private equity firm, Ethos Capital. This could impact the millions of individuals and organizations that have a .ORG website, subjecting them to potential censorship and leaving the door open for price increases on domain registration and renewals.