'Good policing does not mean living in a police state,' one city supervisor said.
San Francisco lawmakers voted Tuesday to make its city the first in the country to outlaw facial recognition technology. The surveillance oversight legislation passed by an 8 to 1 margin does not include technology for personal, business or federal use, but only city property.
Those on the board who support the ban feel that the technology is intrusive, flawed and a threat to civil rights. They felt the technology would keep people from visiting public places like parks, schools, city buildings, shopping centers or other visitor attractions.. Stop Crime SF is a public safety group that opposes the ban, especially with the high property crime rate in the city. One member of that group, Meredith Serra, said that with facial recognition and surveillance technology everywhere from phones to airports, the idea of banning it for privacy in public is absurd.
Lawmakers from neighboring Bay-area city Oakland have kicked around the idea of implementing the same type of legislation.
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