Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US
▻https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/09/tech/portland-facial-recognition-ban/index.html
The city of Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday banned the use of facial-recognition technology by city departments — including local police — as well as public-facing businesses such as stores, restaurants and hotels. Portland joins a growing number of places in the United States, such as San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston, that have outlawed city use of the surveillance technology, which is meant to identify a person from an image of their face. But its decision to prevent both local government (...)
