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While I have a very high disregard for San Franseptic, I do applaud this decision if it comes to pass.

I think the broad use of facial recognition by governments will lead to nothing but disaster for its non-violent citizens.

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It will lead to unintended consequences, for certain. Disaster is a loaded term in this case, which contains no actionable or otherwise useful information. No doubt private concerns will happily continue to use or not use facial recognition of images captured within the city limits. The genie is out of the bottle.

One unintended consequence for one person is a disaster in the life of that person. And you're right; the genie is out and about.

Look up Singapore, and how disastrous it is.

The google results for 'Singapore facial recognition' are fairly useless, would you mind elaborating on their program?

I get a bunch of results.

https://govinsider.asia/connected-gov/singapore-to-use-facia...

All of the results I got were related to your link or a different program to put 100,000 cameras into street lamps. It looks like neither of these has happened yet, so I think it is too early to judge the consequences.

Same with London.

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