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San Francisco is inching closer to becoming the first American city to banfacial recognition surveillance, a booming technology that’s a fast-growing business in the United States and extends to the core of China’s high-tech authoritarianism.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly rushing to installface recognition technology at airports across the U.S., where the surveillance tech is used at toll booths, sporting events, and even Taylor Swift concerts. In China, the government is using the technology to trackMuslim minorities. Police around that country are using facial recognition to track targets and make thousands of arrests.
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