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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."
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San Francisco Could Ban Facial Recognition Technology, Becoming First US City to Do So
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 03 2019, @03:02AM (3 children)
Look at L.A.'s Skid Row or San Diego's East Village or walk anywhere in San Francisco and tell me with a straight face that California leads the way towards a better society. We are full-dystopia, and our so-called "liberals" are the ones who spearheaded those problems.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @04:03AM (1 child)
Maybe you need to move. Maybe Idaho or Eastern Washington state where you can find apes that grunt like you.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @04:50AM
Or maybe he just lives in a nice neighborhood in CA that keeps out the riffraff.
Still, the state seems determined to increase their numbers all the time.
CA could be nice indeed if the politicians weren't trying to destroy it.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @03:19PM
no
capitalists did
capitalists were traditionally in charge of the GOP, but young people lean liberal and they started a lot of those behemoths. then they could afford to keep their values and embrace capitalism.
blaming right or left for fucking people over is not going to help. just blame the people doing it. those cameras wouldn't go in if it didnt make it easier to track people and market to them, while allowing authorities to forget how traditional gumshoe law enforcement actually works. imagine a rookie cop without access to a suspect's social media feed and real world tracking. you've seen what happens -- that person gets called weird and mentally ill and such for not having a facebook account, or a cell phone, or worse, both.
the whole thing feeds off of greed. but damn looking a ads personalized for just me sure is great to keep paying for month after month because the the suppression has to get paid for somehow, and government taxes arent quite doing it.