Local TREND. City Seeks to Ban Facial Recognition Software.

The city: San Francisco

The proposal: 

• new regulations on the city’s process for acquiring surveillance equipment
•  total ban on municipal use of facial recognition software

How many other cities have done this? none

Opponents: law enforcement

The policy goal: ““The propensity for facial recognition technology to endanger civil rights and civil liberties substantially outweighs its purported benefits,”

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