
This Washington county is the first to ban facial recognition technology, official says
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A county in Washington state banned all local government agencies -- including the local sheriff -- from using facial recognition technology.
The King County Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to prohibit its administrative offices from using software applications that identify a person from an image of their face. "The use or misuse of these technologies has potentially devastating consequences which the new ordinance will help to prevent," legislation sponsor Jeanne Kohl-Welles said in a statement.More Related News

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