San Francisco just banned facial recognition technology. From wired.vladimir wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 6:05 amJust as a matter of interest, how many countries does the US watch? They spy on their own citizens, allies and their leaders (Merkel comes to mind)Aseriousman wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 11:33 pmChina is starting to export it's dystopian surveillance systems. It already has 18 countries using it's network infrastructures and AI surveillance.
And if I remember correctly, the UK has more cameras than most other countries in the world, especially in London
Why is the Chinese one 'dystopian' and the others not? Both sides punish perceived enemies violently.
The Chinese have mostly used the surveillance to control their own population,
You could always leave Cambodia, instead of complaining.
THE SAN FRANCISCO Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition by city agencies, a first-of-its-kind measure that has inspired similar efforts elsewhere.
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San Francisco’s ban covers government agencies, including the city police and county sheriff’s department, but doesn’t affect the technology that unlocks your iPhone or cameras installed by businesses or individuals. It’s part of a broader package of rules, introduced in January by supervisor Aaron Peskin, that will require agencies to gain approval from the board before purchasing surveillance tech and will require that they publicly disclose its intended use. In coming weeks, Oakland and Somerville, Massachusetts, are expected to consider facial-recognition bans of their own.
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. Studies by researchers at MIT and Georgetown have found that the technology is less accurate at identifying people of color and could automate biases already pervasive in law enforcement. Privacy advocates see banning facial recognition as a unique opportunity to prevent the technology from getting too entrenched. “We’re doing it now before the genie gets out of the bottle,” says Brian Hofer, an attorney who heads Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission, which spearheaded the legislation in that city. https://www.wired.com/story/san-francis ... tion-tech/