https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190721/09211542624/oakland-california-way-to-becoming-third-us-city-to-ban-facial-recognition-tech.shtml

For the third time in two months, a US city has banned the use of facial recognition tech by local government agencies.

San Francisco started this movement (oh god please let it be a movement) back in May, booting the tech out of the city before local agencies had even gotten a chance to fool around with it. Earlier this month, Somerville, Massachusetts took home the silver in the anti-surveillance-state games, enacting a local ban on facial recognition tech.