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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: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @04:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @04:48AM (#795577)
    Story sez:

    A new bill unveiled on Tuesday ... states that the risks of the controversial technology "substantially outweigh...its purported benefits, and the technology will exacerbate racial injustice ..."

    Ha ha, in other words, CRIMINALS, non-white people, will be recognized and made to go to trial! Can't have that! That would impact the criminals in their ability to earn a living.

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