- San Francisco and Lowell, MA banned the technnology after it was revealed Amazon was selling facial recognition tech to police departments.
- Axon, which manufactures Tasers and is the largest police bodycam manufacturer, decided not to use facial recognition tech with its products, at least for now.
- The Government Accountability Office came out with an analysis of facial recognition tech used by the FBI, finding that the latter agency hadn't implemented earlier recommendations to improve accuracy.
- Shopping centers have begun using facial recognition tech. But schools are beginning to reject it (though some will surely adopt it).
Today it's closer, but not quite yet there. But that utilitarian excuse for not confronting totalitarian surveillance tech will soon fall away. Even if facial-recognition is reliable, it's a bad idea as a generalized surveillance tool. So, arguments against it must ultimately rest not on the prospect of errors (right now, they have higher error rates when identifying racial minorities), but on the prospect of privacy vanishing, and a new form of high-tech totalitarianism rising, if the product were to ever work perfectly.
For more thoughts and background on the subject, here's an old blog-post series I wrote headed into the 2005 Texas legislative session:
Looking back, much of it still holds up.
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