As technology has advanced around the world, we’ve seen several instances of governments stepping in to ban certain things. When something is banned, the motivation behind those bans can sometimes be confusing, or the real reason can become obfuscated behind misleading stories. Here’s the real reason why certain technologies have been banned in certain areas of the world.
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Some United States cities ban facial recognition tech
As far as ban-worthy technologies are concerned, this one is a bit of a softball because the reason why people might want it banned is obvious. While facial recognition makes daily life easier for many of us (particularly when it comes to unlocking our phones), many are concerned about the police using facial recognition to identify criminals. It can be a powerful tool for catching at-large criminals and reducing crime, but real-time video facial recognition also has the potential to severely infringe privacy rights.
Like the CNBC report embedded above explains, there’s also concern that when facial recognition is used, it can falsely implicate innocent people through algorithmic bias. With all that in mind, it comes as little surprise that some legislatures around the United States have taken steps to ban facial recognition. Mostly we’ve seen cities banning the use of the technology, but lately, we’ve also seen state legislatures move to ban it as well. There have even been rumblings of the federal government banning the use...
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