São Paulo to proceed with citywide facial recognition program

A mass deployment of facial recognition cameras is coming to São Paulo. The Court of Justice overturned a legal suspension of procurement for the program, which was enacted over concerns about data protection and racial bias.

“There is no substantiated evidence indicating that the implementation of video surveillance would exacerbate social and racial discrimination,” said Paolo Lorena, a rapporteur for the city. His statement refutes concerns, expressed by a judge in the 3rd Public Treasury Court, that facial recognition cameras …

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