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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 YaxelPerez on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @11:43PM (#19032746)
ez, just use gait recognition /s

https://www.apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a

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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by shittyadmin on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:31AM (#19032948)
I can already smell the studies about how that'll be mostly bunk science in a few years, just like hand writing recognition or fiber analysis now.
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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @02:40AM (#19033370)
It has legitimate biometrics included like bone lengths. It could determine, e.g., which gang member should cops focus on.
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