San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

PHGamer wrote: post #7

and whats to stop the federal government from doing this. At this point people need to accept everything is being recording in public.

My thoughts exactly. The proposed ordinance would only apply to "city departments", so the feds could do whatever they want.

Given my vague recollections of the Supremacy Clause [1] of the Constitution, I don't think a local ordinance like this could have legal effect on the feds, even if it purported to.

1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause

Re: San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

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Post by stickfigure » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 12:54 AM UTC

The third time my car was broken into (to steal - no joke - a crappy stock car stereo from the 90s), I'd have voted for mandatory cameras and facial recognition on every street corner. Maybe sentry guns too.

Instead I moved out of SF. Good luck, folks.

Re: San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

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Post by draw_down » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 1:13 AM UTC

stickfigure wrote: post #9

The third time my car was broken into (to steal - no joke - a crappy stock car stereo from the 90s), I'd have voted for mandatory cameras and facial recognition on every street corner. Maybe sentry guns too. Instead I moved out of SF. Good luck, folks.

You’re right, it’s a real shame they didn’t do that.