San Francisco has become the first city to forbid local agencies from using facial-recognition software. The Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, enacted Wednesday, asserts that the technology’s “propensity . to endanger civil rights and civil liberties substantially outweighs its purported benefits.”That’s open to debate, for facial recognition does offer serious law-enforcement benefits. Cops in a video command center tried to tap into Boston’s network of public and (mostly) private surveillance cameras to track the...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 15, 2019 22:41 UTC