San Francisco becomes first city in the U.S. to ban government use of facial recognition technology

Amid growing fears of facial recognition technology becoming an oppressive tool of surveillance down the line, the city of San Francisco voted on Tuesday to ban the use of it by police or other official agencies. The city’s Board of Supervisors voted 8-1 in support of a proposal to ban facial recognition by agencies to be used for surveillance of the public.

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