City Council of Somerville, a Boston suburb, has voted to ban the use of facial recognition system by police and other city departments. The technology represents a serious threat to citizens privacy. Somerville is the first city of the US East Coast to ban facial recognition technology. In May, San Francisco was the first major city in the US to ban Faceline recognition technology in the U.S. City Council expressed a unanimous vote (11-0) to prohibit use of the technology.”]