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Reference:
2019/12039
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Question by:
Siân Berry
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Meeting date:
20 June 2019
In May 2019, San Francisco, one of the most technology-friendly cities in the world, announced a complete ban on the police use of facial recognition. The San Francisco city legislature announced the ban on the basis that police use of facial recognition was so fundamentally invasive and inherently likely to endanger civil rights and civil liberties that it should never be used. Will you follow this leading example and prevent the use of intrusive and authoritarian police facial recognition in London?