https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/san-francisco-facial-recognition-ban/

On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to approve a ban on the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies. The Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, introduced by San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, will be the first ban of its kind for a major American city and the seventh major surveillance oversight effort for a municipality in California.

“I want to be clear — this is not an anti-technology policy,” Peskin said during Tuesday’s board meeting. Peskin deemphasized the ban aspect of the ordinance, instead framing it as a form of oversight and an outgrowth of the sweeping data privacy reforms signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown last year.