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Tom Simonite

Business
12.22.2021 07:00 AM

Face Recognition Is Being Banned--but It's Still Everywhere

Two dozen cities and states prohibit use of the tech. But it's on
phones and is increasingly used in airports and in banks. 

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A collage with a facial recognition screen and art by Jenny Sharaf
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In November, voters in Bellingham, Washington, passed a ballot
measure banning government use of face recognition technology. It
added to a streak of such laws that started with San Francisco in
2019 and now number around two dozen.

[Tom]
Tom Simonite is a senior writer for WIRED in San Francisco covering
artificial intelligence and its effects on the world. He once trained
an artificial neural network to generate seascapes and is available
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