The recent ban by San Francisco of facial recognition has more to it than the media has tended to report, plus there is the unrealized impacts that the advent of self-driving driverless autonomous cars will have on these types of bans and regulations, read why.
acquiring Surveillance Technology, or entering into agreements to receive informationThe rub on this point is that the city departments aren’t supposed to acquire these technologies, something that I think was already generally expected via the ban, and nor enter into agreements to get such data from others such as private businesses. That’s an intriguing extension, and I suppose once again fits with trying to tie off any loopholes.
I’ll return to my rabbit in the hat point, and emphasize that suppose a firm like an automaker or tech said it could provide to the city an ability to rapidly scan across all of its fleet of driverless cars to find a mass killer that has just performed an unspeakable act. In theory, this kind of prior arrangement would be precluded, thus, making it harder to try and leverage the capability, doing so for the benefit of the city, on a spur of the moment matter.
All told, I’m not arguing that the societal benefits outweigh the societal costs, and nor am I claiming that the societal costs outweigh the societal benefits, but instead trying to awaken us as a society to the approaching era upon which the prevalence of self-driving driverless autonomous cars will force us to inevitably decide how to cope with
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