Facial Recognition Ban May Have Saved San Francisco from Hack
A wide-ranging breach of security camera technology company Verkada appears to have compromised the security of thousands of private and public institutions across the world, including some in the San Francisco Bay Area.
by Chase DiFeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle
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March 11, 2021
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(TNS) — A wide-ranging breach of
San Mateo, Calif., security camera technology company Verkada appears to have compromised the security of thousands of private and public institutions across the world, including some in the San Francisco Bay Area.
San Francisco's city government seems to have been spared, however, due in part to a 2019 ordinance banning the use of facial recognition technology by the city's