“The public increasingly understands the threat this technology can pose and that isn’t what they want”
Pedestrians walk along Post Street in San Francisco. The city became the first in the United States to ban facial recognition technology by police and city agencies.
“The central motivator here is public safety, while making sure police can do their jobs,” said Matt Cagle, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who helped draft the law. “We’ve learned a lot about facial recognition and seen how it’s been used in places like China to track and control populations. The public increasingly understands the threat this technology can pose and that isn’t what they want.
The law does not prohibit companies or individuals from using facial recognition cameras or other surveillance tools, or from sharing their contents with law enforcement during an investigation. Last month, a New York student sued Apple Inc., claiming the company’s facial-recognition software falsely linked him to a series of thefts at Apple stores.
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