Efforts to Ban Facial Recognition

Published 2022-03

In September 2020, King County, Washington became the first county in the United States to ban the private use of facial recognition, while San Francisco had previously banned its use by local agencies and law enforcement on a city level.

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Verdict

fadedNot listed again within the publisher's next two editions, nor later (D33).

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

The same forecast in other editions

2021rank 114
2022rank 118

All captured fields

rank: 118
section: Recognition, Scoring & Privacy
subsection: Recognition / Avoiding Recognition Systems
subject: Efforts to Ban Facial Recognition
horizon: Act Now
page: 115
confidence: high
note: horizon is the label the page header highlights (Watch Closely / Informs Strategy / Act Now); it applies to the page the trend starts on.