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San Francisco tweaks facial recognition ban that made it illegal for city employees to use iPhones

December 24, 2019

Via: TechSpot

While San Francisco may have been the first US city to place a blanket ban on facial recognition, it’s also the first to have learned that it isn’t the best of ideas. The city’s Board of Supervisors wanted to ensure accountability around the use of surveillance technology and facial recognition, but that inadvertently extended to outlaw the use of Face ID for iPhone users.

According to a report from Wired, San Francisco officials realized that a lot of city-issued iPhones were now illegal to use even with Face ID disabled, so they scrambled to amend the law last week. The changes still apply to the use of Apple’s facial recognition feature as well as the alternatives, but the purchase and use of mobile devices that have it is now allowed.

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