San Francisco becomes first city in U.S. to ban use of facial-recognition software by city agencies and police
A surveillance camera hangs from the side of a building in San Francisco. By Drew Harwell Drew Harwell National technology reporter covering artificial intelligence Email Bio Follow May 14 at 7:16 PM San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in the United States to ban the use of facial-recognition software by city agencies and the police, dealing a swift symbolic blow to a key technology rapidly being deployed by law enforcement nationwide.
“That a community where a lot of the folks are building facial recognition is the first to ban it is pretty telling of the dangers of the technology,” said Jevan Hutson, a University of Washington law student who advocated for a facial-recognition moratorium in Washington, the home state of Amazon and Microsoft.
No federal laws govern the use of facial recognition nationwide, and more than 50 state or local police agencies across the country have at some point used facial-recognition systems in attempts to identify criminal suspects or verify identities. A second reading of the Stop Secretive Surveillance ordinance is expected to be approved at an upcoming board meeting, when it will officially become law. Aaron Peskin, the San Francisco supervisor who introduced the bill earlier this year, has voiced concerns that facial-recognition technology could turn the city into a “police state.
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