Facial-Recognition Bans
City bans with hard-to-measure effects and workarounds.
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1 · The idealist case (in its proponents' own framing)
Ban face surveillance to protect privacy.
2 · The realist counter-case
Critics cite lost investigative tools.
3 · Predicted vs. measured — with caveats
SF (2019) and others banned it; fusion-center workarounds blunt the ban; outcomes unmeasurable.
4 · Liberty check
Privacy vs. investigative capability.
5 · The real tradeoff
Low-confidence, but a real liberty stake.
Allies & Playbook
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