It's Hard to Ban Facial Recognition Tech in the iPhone Era - iTech - Blog: iOS • Android • Windows • Mac • Game • Technology

San Francisco quietly amends its municipal surveillance legislation to permit for Apple's Face ID, although the ban on facial recognition nonetheless applies. After San Francisco in Might positioned new controls, together with a ban on facial recognition, on municipal surveillance, metropolis workers started taking inventory of what know-how businesses already owned. They shortly realized that the town owned numerous facial recognition know-how--a lot of it in employees' pockets. Metropolis-issued iPhones geared up with Apple's signature unlock characteristic, Face ID, had been now unlawful--even when the characteristic was turned off, says Lee Hepner, an aide to supervisor Aaron Peskin, the member of the native Board of Supervisors who spearheaded the ban. Across the similar time, police division staffers scurried to disable a facial recognition system for looking out mug pictures that was unknown to the general public or Peskin's workplace.