Matt Cagle

This proposal invites dragnet surveillance that history shows will disproportionately harm immigrants, communities of color, and activists, and it invites profit-seeking firms to violate Facebook and Twitter rules designed to keep users safe, treating social media users like suspects won't make us more safe, but it will make us less free.

It's certainly not easy to pass legislation in any context, in any legislature, but local governments are naturally more responsive to their residents and they're able to act quicker in many ways.

With this vote, San Francisco has declared that face surveillance technology is incompatible with a healthy democracy and that residents deserve a voice in decisions about high-tech surveillance, we applaud the city for listening to the community, and leading the way forward with this crucial legislation.