King County, WA bans facial recognition software
Genuine question - why not ban cameras altogether? Or ban the use of computers in police stations, make them write up all their reports by hand. I truly don&#x27;t understand why there would be a line at facial recognition, it&#x27;s just a law against making a process more efficient.<p>It&#x27;s clear to me that there should be a line to prevent fully convicting someone of a crime without any humans in the loop at all. Don&#x27;t replace the jury or public defenders with robots. But facial recognition could just be a way to look through a large amount of footage to find relevant clips that would then be reviewed in more detail by humans. Without facial recognition, you just pay cops overtime to look through footage themselves. It doesn&#x27;t necessarily affect the outcome of the process at all.<p>I think facial recognition just needs some help with its image, it&#x27;s just a tool that would save tax dollars. Or a means to Defund The Police, if that&#x27;s your thing.