The city will also require government departments to seek approval for technology that watches citizens
ON MAY 14th, San Francisco’s legislature voted to ban city agencies from using facial-recognition technology. Leading the charge was Aaron Peskin, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, the legislative body. In January, when he introduced the measure, he said he had “yet to be persuaded that there is any beneficial use of this technology that outweighs the potential for government actors to use it for coercive and oppressive ends.” That argument proved compelling.
Some may shrug, believing that since their phones already track them, and their social-media accounts provide a record of their preferences, travel, and in many cases political beliefs, one more incursion on their privacy does not amount to much. But facial-recognition technology is rather different. A person can choose to leave their phone at home, or delete their social-media accounts. To avoid being tracked in a city blanketed with facial-recognition cameras, they would have to stay home.
America is not yet at that point. Facial-recognition is not currently widely used. It is reported not to work especially well in non-controlled settings—it cannot always compare and identify people at odd angles, in motion and under bad lighting. It grows less accurate as a database gets larger, and it is especially bad at accurately identifying non-white people. But it is getting better and more popular.
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