Lawmakers proposed a new bill that would ban the use of facial recognition by law enforcement nationwide. The bill would be the first temporary ban on facial recognition technology ever enacted nationwide. Boston this week became the tenth U.S. city to ban government use of the technology. The ACLU filed a complaint saying an African American man was arrested in Detroit, after a facial recognition system falsely matched his photo with security footage of a shoplifter. Tech companies and privacy advocates alike are putting their feet down when it comes to the inherent racial biases that facial recognition could potentially bring to the table.
Source: https://threatpost.com/nationwide-facial-recognition-ban-proposed-by-lawmakers/156928/