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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by gnicholas on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:43PM (#19031468)
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

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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by freedomben on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:54PM (#19032504)
It would be a legal battle for sure, but there's a chance that nullification could win [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_(U.S._Constituti...

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