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Eyewear, Not Spywear!
Tech giant Meta is poised to add facial recognition technology to its AI glasses. This planned “name tag” feature would violate our privacy and liberty.
Data Privacy Now!
Today, technology has far outpaced privacy law. Data brokers and Big Tech are free to do almost anything they want with our personal information, including selling our cellphone location data on the open market. These practices endanger all of us, but especially vulnerable communities like immigrants, protesters, and people seeking and providing reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare.
Lawmakers must pass the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act (H.4746) to give all Massachusetts residents robust privacy rights in the digital age.
Press Releases
Apr 13, 2026
ACLU and 75 Organizations Sound Alarm on Meta’s Plan to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Ray-Ban and Oakley Eyeglasses
Open letter signed by scores of nonprofits warns that the glasses pose an unacceptable threat to our right to privacy and must be cancelled
Apr 09, 2026
Federal Court Dismisses Trump Administration's Lawsuit to Obtain Private Voter Data from Massachusetts
Voting Rights Groups Help Secure Legal Victory Protecting Data Privacy
Apr 02, 2026
Voting Rights Groups Challenge Executive Order on Mail-In Ballots as Illegal Interference in Elections
President Trump’s unlawful executive order would take control of mail-in ballots from the states and create an unvalidated, error-prone system that would risk disenfranchising eligible voters.
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