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

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: 4, Funny) by Some call me Tim on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:48AM (1 child)

    by Some call me Tim (5819) on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:48AM (#795606)

    With all the turds in the street, they were having problems with false positives every time the Sacramento politicians decided to visit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @01:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @01:21PM (#795667)

    Okay, fine, don't implement facial recognition technology. Do implement technology to detect when someone unloads shit onto the street so a cleanup crew can be called.