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Evan Greer

Fight for the Future director

Facial recognition surveillance should be banned everywhere, but keeping it out of public housing is an excellent start, [...] This type of invasive surveillance technology is often tested on, and disproportionately used to target poor people and people of color. If public housing units become a panopticon of automated face scanning and monitoring, it will mean more people in prison, more police abuse, and more families torn apart. Surveillance of poor communities isn’t about safety, it’s about social control. Everyone deserves liberty and privacy in their own homes –– no one should have to choose between homelessness and losing their basic rights.

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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

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AI Verified The quote clearly supports the statement. It explicitly says 'Facial recognition surveillance should be banned everywhere' and condemns automated face scanning and monitoring by public authorities as invasive social control, which implies support for banning government use of AI for mass surveillance. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Unverifiable The quote clearly says "Facial recognition surveillance should be banned everywhere" and criticizes automated face scanning in public housing, but it does not unambiguously address the broader policy of banning all government use of AI for mass surveillance. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified The Fight for the Future page dated July 23, 2019 contains this statement verbatim (with your [...] matching omitted text) and explicitly attributes it to “Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future” in lines 39–40. ([fightforthefuture.org](https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2019-07-23-fight-for-the-future-welcomes-legislation-to-ban/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

AI Verified Checked: (1) Author attribution — Evan Greer, director (deputy director) of Fight for the Future; correct. (2) Quote content — WebFetch on source_url returned HTTP 403, but web search corroborated the quote verbatim, including "Surveillance of poor communities isn't about safety, it's about social control," "This type of invasive surveillance technology is often tested on, and disproportionately used to target poor people and people of color," the "panopticon of automated face scanning" line, and "Everyone deserves liberty and privacy in their own homes – no one should have to choose between homelessness and losing their basic rights." (3) Source — fightforthefuture.org press release "Fight for the Future welcomes legislation to ban facial recognition surveillance in public housing" (July 23, 2019), corroborated by Common Dreams; correct primary source. (4) Year 2019 — correct. (5) Vote alignment — statement "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance", vote "for": Greer states "Facial recognition surveillance should be banned everywhere," so "for" is correct. Quote is from 2019 but remains relevant, so it is kept. All checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 4mo ago

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

Whether humans use AI to kill each other or AI agent swarms do immense harm, it’s clear that unregulated AI poses an existential threat to human rights and liberty, if not humanity itself.

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