Facialized: US to Force Mugshots From All Citizen Travelers

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https://www.fastcompany.com/90436355/portlands-proposed-facial-recognition-ban-could-be-the-strictest-yet

Oregon locality tries to say nope, will end up traptured.

As the federal government plods along on developing privacy laws, some
cities are taking matters into their own hands -- with facial
recognition technology at the top of the list. Now, Portland, Oregon,
has plans to ban the use of facial recognition for both the government
and private businesses in the city, a move that could make Portland's
ban the most restrictive in the United States. The proposed ban comes
after cities including San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in
California, and Somerville in Massachusetts, have already banned the
use of facial recognition by their city government agencies, including
police departments. But Portland's ban goes a step further by
expanding to private businesses -- if it makes it into law and takes
effect in spring 2020, as planned. It could be a preview of what to
expect across the country. "I think we're going to start to see more
and more [private sector bans]," says ACLU of Northern California
attorney Matt Cagle, who helped draft the San Francisco legislation
that later served as the model for Oakland and Berkeley. "People are
really concerned about facial recognition use and the tracking of
their innate features by governments and private corporations."