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"San Francisco leaders are expected to vote next week on a proposal, opposed by police, that would make the tech capital the first city in America to ban local agencies from using facial-recognition software."

Ban it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/30/amazons-facial-recognition-technology-is-supercharging-local-police #surveillance

A "Geo-fence" warrant can allow "the very kind of search the Fourth Amendment was intended to prevent."

Having a device that generates location data should not be probable cause. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/googles-sensorvault-can-tell-police-where-youve-been #surveillance

This dragnet approach to facial recognition needs to stop. https://www.cnet.com/news/with-facial-recognition-shoplifting-may-get-you-banned-in-places-youve-never-been/ #surveillance

In the US, our outreach efforts have turned to some of the best defenders of democracy, privacy, and human rights: librarians.
https://blog.torproject.org/strength-numbers-library-freedom-intellectual-freedom
#freedom #privacy #internetfreedom #surveillance