Austin, San Francisco bar facial recognition tech. Police still found ways to access it.

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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary As cities and states push to restrict the use of facial recognition technologies, some police departments have quietly found a way to keep using the controversial tools: asking for help from other law enforcement agencies that still have access.

Officers in Austin and San Francisco — two of the largest cities where police are banned from using the technology — have repeatedly asked police in neighboring towns to run photos of criminal suspects through their facial recognition programs, according to a Washington Post review of police documents.


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