Discussion

• @katekayereports Kate Kaye on x

  Portland city council just unanimously passed the most radical ban on facial recognition anywhere. I've been covering this thing since it was just an idea bouncing around city hall over a year ago. I'll be on it going forward, through implementation, too. https://onezero.medium.c…

• @cpbworks Community Protection on x

  This sounds great on paper, but who's actually going to enforce this when law enforcement inevitably violates these laws, and does it anyway? If only we had a police commission who could answer the call, that the Portland community actually trusted. https://twitter.com/...

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  Breaking: Portland passes the toughest ban on facial recognition in the US — it's now the only city to outlaw the technology's use in private businesses https://www.cnet.com/...

• @katekayereports Kate Kaye on x

  Yep. And that's not all. Amazon's top lobbyist sits on the board of @ITIFdc which pushed for Portland police to use facial recognition (since I reported this story, Amazon spent an additional $12K bringing their lobbying spending to $24K against the ban. https://onezero.medium.co…

• @tripti2994 Triptijain on x

  Use of FRT ban for both state and non state actors in Portland, as it is not just state actors that carry out surveillance and discrimination. These are the kind of structural changes that are required to be made to ensure privacy of individuals. https://www.cnet.com/...

• @william_fitz William Fitzgerald on x

  banning the use of corporate facial recognition!! wowee, go portland! https://twitter.com/...

• @altpubliclands @altpubliclands on x

  I hope to see this style legislation throughout the country. We don't need to let this out of the bottle. It could never be put back. If we've learned anything about our current authoritarian, I think it's that they can't be trusted with this kind of stuff. https://twitter.com/..…

• @motherboard @motherboard on x

  The legislation would be the strongest ban on the technology in the US, blocking both government and commercial use. https://www.vice.com/...

• @foxcahn Albert Fox Cahn on x

  Congratulations to #Portland on this epic win in the fight against #FacialRecognition! https://twitter.com/...

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  Today, Portland is voting on what could be the strictest ban on facial recognition in the country: no public or private use allowed. Amazon has been trying for almost ten months to nip this legislation in the bud before it inspires other cities. https://www.vice.com/...

• @epro Emil Protalinski on x

  “No one should have something as private as their face photographed, stored, and sold to third parties for a profit. No one should be unfairly thrust into the criminal justice system because the tech algorithm misidentified an innocent person.” https://venturebeat.com/...

• @fightfortheftr @fightfortheftr on x

  “All Portlanders are entitled to a city government that will not use technology with demonstrated racial and gender biases that endanger personal privacy,” Portland mayor Ted Wheeler said. https://twitter.com/...

• @emmalbriant @emmalbriant on x

  Let's hope this sets a precedent. https://twitter.com/...

• @hypervisible Doomscrolling Eternal on x

  The law “lets people sue noncompliant private entities for $1,000 per day for each day of violation or for damages sustained as a result of the violation, whichever is greater.” https://onezero.medium.com/...

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  Portland's mayor @tedwheeler said he hopes today's vote will inspire other cities to pass their own facial recognition bans, on both public and private use. https://www.cnet.com/...

• @ozm OneZero on x

  EXCLUSIVE: Portland is now the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition tech inside privately owned places accessible to the public. The new law also gives people the right to sue and win damages for unlawful use of facial recognition. https://read.medium.com/Gc1gXV8