>However the power as it currently stands is much more likely to be used for leveraged persecution and partial enforcement against specific people, and classes

>However the power as it currently stands is much more likely to be used for leveraged persecution and partial enforcement against specific people, and classes of people (IE not rich), rather than for all the people. I don't see how this is any more or less true of facial recognition than other evidence-gathering technology. >The issue at hand is about those who should be presumed to be innocent. The many who are in a crowd, the majority that are probably not at all related to whatever search is happening. Maybe so, but the laws which are getting passed and proposed as a result of all this journalism are much more broad: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-bans-use-of-facial-recognition-14101253.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-bans-use... https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812032/bernie-sanders-facial-recognition-police-ban-surveillance-reform https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812032/bernie-sanders-f...