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San Francisco Could Ban Facial Recognition Technology, Becoming First US City to Do So

posted by martyb on Saturday February 02 2019, @10:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-look-at-me-that-way dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

San Francisco could become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition technology, criticized as biased by lawmakers and privacy advocates.

A new bill unveiled on Tuesday, known as the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, states that the risks of the controversial technology "substantially outweigh...its purported benefits, and the technology will exacerbate racial injustice and threaten our ability to live free of continuous government monitoring."

https://foxnews.com/tech/san-francisco-could-ban-facial-recognition-technology-becoming-first-us-city-to-do-so

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:42AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:42AM (#795515)

    And let's not forget, San Francisco is where Room 641A was located.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A [wikipedia.org]

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    This "banning of face-reco" is just lip service and the city of San Francisco is utterly powerless to stop the use of face-reco by the 3-letter agencies, though I
    am sure those agencies will laugh long and hard about this.

    And like someone else wrote, the sidewalks in this liberal-run city are covered in feces.

    .

    You can thus see what happens when liberals run a government.

    Things literally go to shit.

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:58AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:58AM (#795521) Homepage

    Not only that, but SF is Feinstein's home base.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @06:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @06:41PM (#795762)

      Feinstein is a jew.