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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @07:00PM (1 child)
it's only wealthy, insulated (usually white) idiots who have never had to deal with poverty or "oppressed minorities" (outside of their contrived scenarios) that think every race or culture is equal and should be welcomed/tolerated/celebrated.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 03 2019, @07:43PM
Race, yes. Culture, no. Some cultures are definitely superior to others. American whites, for example, should definitely have their culture replaced by either European whites' culture or maybe South Korean or Japanese culture. Especially the ones living south of the Mason-Dixon line.
See what I did there...?
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