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San Francisco becomes first US city to ban police use of facial recognition technology

Updated about an hour ago

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"This is really about saying 'We can have security without being a security state. We can have good policing without being a police state.' And part of that is building trust with the community based on good community information, not on Big Brother technology," said supervisor (councillor) Aaron Peskin, who championed the legislation.

The ban applies to San Francisco police and other municipal departments, but it does not affect the use of the technology by the Federal Government at airports and ports, nor does it limit personal or business use.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-15/san-francisco-bans-police-use-of-facial-recognition-technology/11116204

"When algorithms go wrong we need more power to fight back, say AI researchers
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Another area where action is needed immediately, say the pair, is the use of facial recognition and affect recognition. The former is increasingly being used by police forces, in China, the US, and Europe. Amazon’s Rekognition software, for example, has been deployed by police in Orlando and Washington County .. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17379968/amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-surveillance-aclu , even though tests have shown that the software can perform differently across different races. In a test where Rekognition was used to identify members of Congress .. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/26/17615634/amazon-rekognition-aclu-mug-shot-congress-facial-recognition .. it had an error rate of 39 percent for non-white members compared to only five percent for white members. And for affect recognition, where companies claim technology can scan someone’s face and read their character and even intent, AI Now’s authors say companies are often peddling pseudoscience. "