San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban use of facial recognition by police and other city departments. Will this make it more difficult to catch bad guys who use the cloak of anonymity to blend in? Are we less safe because the police must work with outdated technology? Or did the San Francisco Board of Supervisors finally do something with which red-blooded conservatives and libertarians can agree?
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San Fran Ban: Cops Can’t Use Facial Recognition
San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban use of facial recognition by police and other city departments. Will this make it more difficult to catch bad guys who use the cloak of anonymity to blend in? Are we less safe because the police must work with outdated technology? Or did the San Francisco Board of Supervisors finally do something with which red-blooded conservatives and libertarians can agree?
8 replies on “San Fran Ban: Cops Can’t Use Facial Recognition”
Walmart & Sams Club have THE most SOPHISTICATED facial recognition that you have ever seen … If you have ever been ‘trespassed’ from either of the stores ANYWHERE – you will be picked up by the police if you even dare show up in one of their parking lots anywhere in the country.
To give credit to groups you disagree with most of the time, is hard.
To be intellectually honest is more important than my discomfort. Well done.
This is a rare occasion in which I disagree with Bill. Perhaps, my disagreement is based on the fact that San Fran is where the technology is being banned. I’d imagine that the primary concern of the politicians responsible for this are more concerned with the “rights” of the undocumented than of the documented. Any tech can be misused and one must always be vigilant but it seems to me that the officials should not be deprived of technology that could be used to more efficiently do their job just because they may misuse it.
Wonder how this discussion would look from the point of somebody living in the (old-fashioned) small town where everybody knows your shoe size but where the most advanced technology is the grape vine. It’s where, as somebody said, if as a kid he misbehaved away from home, his mother would know before he got home.
To be filed under the heading, “Sometimes, even a blind squirrel finds a nut.”
I, for one, welcome our new robot, grain of rice monitor overlords.
Oh yes!
In the Garden of Beasts- excellent book.
leaves no doubt that the Roosevelt administration was well aware- early- of the true nature of the Nazi regime.
I don’t want the government handling facial recognition or DNA or ANY bio-metric information. For the simple fact that government is INEPT!
Sure they got you on camera that puts you in a certain place at a certain time… but how accurate is that time stamp… can it be hacked? and how the hell do you defend yourself against it if it is wrong? The assumption of innocence is thrown out. Speeding cameras are a great example… there is often lag with the taking of pictures and it grabs the wrong car. BUT you are assumed guilty and if you say you were not driving the car at that time YOU have to say who WAS driving the car at that time.
No! it turns the entire presumption of innocence on its head. and besides all that… The government is prohibited from “searching” for crimes until and unless they get a warrant with the specific time place and person to be searched.