Council resists facial recog for police

City council resolved Tuesday that the SPVM is not going to get facial recognition tools till they say so. The SQ already has them and it sounds from this article like the SPVM is being extremely shifty about whether it’s been using them or not.

I’ve always assumed that once such tools became viable, authority would use them. It’s like everything from phone hacking to GPS tracing – if you’re after somebody, you’ll use the tech and then figure out later how to present the evidence in court.