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5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology.
Crime figures have broadly declined but fentanyl has recently driven an increase in overdose deaths and commercial downtown neighborhoods are still struggling with pandemic-driven office and retail vacancies. Anshel Sag, a Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, a tech research firm, notes that almost all newer drones on the market have forms of face recognition technology built-in. Saira Hussain, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that San Francisco’ previous ban on face recognition allows the police department to possess devices with the technology built in if it’s a manufacturer-installed capability.
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