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A comment on San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city. Parent comment

Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by sp332 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:58PM (#19031913)
It does if a department issues iPhones to employees. Or Windows laptops with "Windows Hello" logins, or Samsung phones with facial unlock features, etc. It doesn't specify if "face recognition" includes iris and retina scans.
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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by chrisseaton on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @02:47AM (#19033402)
But that would only ban those iPhones not iPhones in general.
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