100+ artists sign pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition technology

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More than 100 artists, including guitarist Tom Morello, The Coup frontman Boots Riley, and Rage Against The Machine vocalist Zack De la Rocha, have banded together to boycott venues that use modern face scanning technologies.

It follows repeated protests over the last few months by the digital rights activist group Fight For The Future, who have been campaigning against the use of such programmes. The organisation spearheaded the boycott, with concerns over privacy.

Several…