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| Subject: About time: San Francisco becomes 1st major US city to outlaw police use of facial recognition technology Wed May 15, 2019 12:10 am | |
| San Francisco is to become the first U.S. city to outlaw a rapidly developing technology that has alarmed privacy and civil-liberties advocates, as the liberal city’s supervisors voted Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other city departments. Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who championed the legislation, said he was worried that Big Brother technology would lead to a greater police state in San Francisco, a city teeming with tech innovation and the home of Twitter, Airbnb and Uber.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/san-francisco-1st-us-city-outlaw-police-facial-recognition-technology |
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