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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 03 2019, @11:15PM
Ginsburg is effectively already dead, and there's already a 6-3 majority of hard-right neocons on the court. THIS is why I held my nose and voted D; the Judiciary in general, and the SCOTUS in particular, is a massive vulnerability in the US government, in that a successful partisan hijack can cripple the other two branches for decades on end. Even if Trump had turned out to be perfectly capable and principled, I *still* would have voted against him specifically so that he couldn't pack the court. The GOP understands the above very well, and it's why they stalled out Merrick Garland, who himself isn't exactly another Justice Sotomayer...
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