To put it simply… the fledgling technology is “Racist.” Not the best course of action for the tech hub city as the proponents of technology would argue, but San Francisco’s metropolis’ Board of Supervisors has banned the use of facial recognition by any of its 53 departments – in turn becoming the first city in the U.S to pass such a ban. The ban came despite the fact that none of the city agencies currently use this technology. Looking in retrospect, there must be some compelling reason to ban facial recognition technology in a place which calls itself as the…...
Why did the Tech hub of San Francisco ban Facial Recognition?
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