StateScoop: A San Francisco supervisor is proposing legislation that would make it the first city in the United States to ban all local government agencies from using facial recognition technology.
The bill would prohibit all city agencies, including law enforcement, from using the technology and any information gleaned from it. It also places checks on the ability of city agencies to procure “surveillance technology,” placing it in line with policies of nearby Oakland and Berkeley, as well as the Bay Area Rapid Transit.
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