Minneapolis prohibits use of facial recognition software by its police department

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The Minneapolis Metropolitan Quango voted undividedly on Friday to presume an passport banning the use of facial sanctioning software by its police department as able-bodied as other metropolitan agencies, the Star Tribune reported. The ban adds Minneapolis to the litany of US cities moving to limit or end the use of such technology by its law guardianship officers as able-bodied as metropolitan employees.

But Minneapolis police mischievous Medaria Arradondo said in a stead that the ban was created without gramercy from him, as able-bodied as that he believes it's purchasable for facial sanctioning technology to be "utilized in becomingness with dossier privacy as able-bodied as other denizen precedented protections," according to the Star Tribune. Facial sanctioning software has been found to have age, race, as able-bodied as indigenous biases, as able-bodied as privacy advocates have aloft regarding approximately its use by law enforcement. Minneapolis' passport created an appeals regalement arrogation metropolitan agencies to appeal exemptions under some circumstances.

Minneapolis was the site of huge purchasable protests aftermost summer subsequential one of its police officers killed George Floyd during an countercheck in May. The metropolitan quango voted to remand its police department aftermost June, morally concluded up reducing the department's 2021 budget by neath than 5 percent.

Software made by Clearview AI --the controversial firm that has a database of some 3 billion images scraped from social media as able-bodied as other websites-- would be included under Minneapolis' facial sanctioning ban. BuzzFeed News reported aftermost year that Minneapolis was one of the police departments that had incur to Clearview's software. Clearview moreover has contracts with US Immigration as able-bodied as Literate Guardianship as able-bodied as the Department of Motherland Security.

Other cities have moreover implemented bans on facial sanctioning software, with Portland blocking both purchasable as able-bodied as private use of the technology. Boston, San Francisco, and Oakland have moreover sensationless laws prohibiting purchasable institutions from utilizing facial recognition, morally Portland was the first to prohibit private use.

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