No More Facial Recognition

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition by city agencies.San Francisco’s ban covers government agencies, including the city police and county sheriff’s department.Facial-recognition technology has been used by law enforcement to spot fraud and identify suspects, but critics say that recent advances in AI have transformed the technology into a dangerous tool that enables real-time surveillance. In San Francisco, the police department says it doesn’t currently use facial recognition, although it tested the technology on booking photos between 2013 and 2017.  -Khai