http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/opinion/ci_32641322?source=AP

In San Francisco, the law has gotten ahead of technology for once. Last week, the city became the first in the nation to ban government agencies from using facial-recognition software. The impulse to control a nascent technology that could pose real risks to civil rights is laudable. But a moratorium might be a better strategy than outright prohibition to limit the dangers of an unregulated but potentially useful tool.

There is no need to imagine a dystopian surveillance state in which a government can follow its citizens everywhere they go simply by scanning their faces.