The US city of Portland, Maine on Wednesday voted to ban the use of facial recognition by police and city officials. The Bangor Daily News reported that voters passed a ballot initiative "bolstering a ban on facial recognition by city agencies". The initiative follows a city council vote in August, which put a preliminary ban in place as an ordinance. The citizens are entitled to a minimum of $1,000 in fines if they are subjected to a facial recognition scan by police. Portland joins Boston, San Francisco; Portland, Oregon and the city of Oakland in Northern California in banning the use of facial recognition technology by the authorities.