sfchronicle.com
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition by city departments, including police, making it the third city in the country to do so after San Francisco and Somerville, Mass. The ordinance, introduced by council president Rebecca Kaplan, amends the city’s current surveillance ordinance and prevent city departments from adopting any facial recognition technology and from using information obtained by the software. “I am thrilled my colleagues clearly und…
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