The Hidden Biometric Surveillance

The City Council of Oakland, California started 2021 by strengthening its prohibitions on community surveillance through an amendment to its municipal code. The amendment, passed unanimously, prohibits the city’s police department from using biometric and predictive policing technology. Both practices have raised concerns over invasion of privacy, racial bias, and the targeting of minority communities. This follows a recent trend of local governments adopting anti-surveillance legislation that ranges from regulation of surveillance technology to an outright ban.

The types of technology banned include those that can “identify a person based on ‘physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics ascertained from a distance.”

This is an extreme invasion of privacy it seems more clear now more than ever covid 19 might have been very much real because people passed away but they are using this opportunity to shorten the American leash. Edwin Snowden warned us of all this I mean to top it off our government still hasn't been tried for spying on the American people it seems like that has just gotten forgotten and swept under the rug.

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