“San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition“

Well, this is interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48276660

Something had to happen of course: we’ve been discussing this for years on this blog …

… etc. …

Obviously, we weren’t going to walk straight in to a 1984 scenario: there’s always pre-ripples to any of these social upheavals.

But whether this turns out to be a liberal victory or a camouflaged route to alternate forms of surveillance remains to be seen.  Watch this space …

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Futurist/Futurologist. Socialist. Vegan. Doomsayer. Professor of Computing Futures. Author of 'CONSCIOUS' https://vicgrout.net/the-book/ View all posts by Vic Grout

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