The Minneapolis City Council passed a draft ordinance banning the use of facial recognition software by city police on February 12, increasing the list of major cities that will enforce regional restrictions on the controversial technology. After the draft ban was approved earlier in the week 13 city council members All voted for and no votes against.
The new ban will block Minneapolis police from using facial recognition technologies, including software with Clearview AI. The company sells access to a large database of facial images, often collected from major SNSs, to federal law enforcement agencies, private sectors, and many police stations in the United States. The Minneapolis Police Station is known to be associated with Clearview AI, as is the sheriff’s office in Hennepin County, Minnesota, where Minneapolis is located, but the latter is not restricted by the new ordinance.
The vote is a groundbreaking decision in the city that has sparked anti-racist protests across the United States after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd in 2020. The city has been in the midst of police reform since then, withdrawing that promise later in the year after pledged to freeze the city’s police department’s budget in June 2020, ahead of the United States. We are reforming.
Banning the use of facial recognition technology is one targeted measure that can curb new concerns about offensive crackdowns. Not only do many privacy advocates disproportionately target colored facial communities with AI-powered facial recognition systems, but the technology has technical drawbacks in identifying non-white faces. I am concerned that it has been proven to be.
The move to ban this controversial technology is intensifying in cities across the United States, and restrictions are being enforced in various ways. In Portland, Oregon, a new law passed in 2020 bans city authorities from using facial recognition, while also banning private companies from introducing facial recognition technology in public. .. Earlier San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston laws restricted the use of facial recognition tools by the city government, but did not include similar provisions for private businesses.