San Francisco bans police from using facial recognition tools

Nicholas Fearn
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City officials voted eight-to-one to ban facial recognition use by law enforcement, with the ban to come into effect next week.

San Francisco has become the first US city to ban its police force from using facial recognition tools. On Tuesday, city officials voted eight-to-one to implement a ban on surveillance technolog...

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