San Francisco Police Use Banned Tech to Build Gun Case

Governing: San Francisco police investigators may have circumvented the city’s ban on facial recognition technology by building a gun case, in part, on facial recognition software used by another law enforcement agency, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Chronicle.

The revelation has raised serious questions among city officials about whether the Police Department bypassed a city law intended to curb the use of certain surveillance technologies by law enforcement and most other city agencies.

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