Security News > 2020 > July > Boston bans government use of facial recognition

Williams, a black man living in Michigan, was arrested in January when police used automatic facial recognition to match his old driver's license photo to a store's blurry surveillance footage of a black man allegedly stealing watches.

The Detroit Police Department claims that it doesn't make arrests based solely on facial recognition.

Boston might be one of the biggest cities to ban facial recognition, but it's playing catchup with the communities that surround it in the Greater Boston area.

Without a national moratorium on the technology facial recognition can still be carried out by federal agencies such as the FBI in any of those cities.

At the federal level, the day after Boston city council voted to kick facial recognition to the curb, a bill was introduced that would put a moratorium on face recognition systems.

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