https://onezero.medium.com/the-best-reason-for-your-city-to-ban-facial-recognition-d2c1f9ca094b > Will OremusBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingMay 17Photo: fanjianhua/GettyThis week, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to bar itself from using facial recognition systems. The city’s Board of Supervisors voted 8–1 on Tuesday to prohibit the police and other public agencies — though not private companies — from using the emerging technology in any form as part of a larger bill to regulate broader surveillance efforts. > Some cheered the move as a victory for privacy and civil liberties. Some criticized it as a blow to law enforcement and public safety. And cynics dismissed it as an empty gesture, given that San Francisco wasn’t using facial recognition technology in the first place.