Business & Tech Report: Hidden Cameras Rampant in Airbnb Units, Sexual Predators Allowed to Keep Hosting A new CNN report finds that Airbnb is receiving thousands of complaints a year about creepy hosts using security cameras to record their guests' intimate moments, and the company has allowed sex offenders to keep hosting, or even become “Superhosts.”
SF News SFPD Will Place Its New Surveillance Cameras at 24th and Mission, 19th and Mission Streets After SF voters allowed cops to put more surveillance cameras all over the streets of San Francisco, the SFPD has decided where they will place the first two of them: 24th and Mission streets, and 19th and Mission streets.
SF News Report: SFPD Skirting SF’s Facial Recognition Ban by Just Farming Requests Out to Other Police Departments A new report in the Washington Post says the SFPD is still using the facial recognition tools that it was banned from using five years ago, by just sending requests to other cities' police departments that are still allowed to use those tools.
Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
SF News SF Is Going to Install 400 License Plate Readers to Hopefully Deter Car Theft, Sideshows, and Such With a $17 million grant from the state to combat retail theft and auto burglaries, San Francisco is going to put 400 license plate readers about town in hopes of catching more criminals.
SF News March Ballot Measure Proposes Giving SF Cops Drones, More Surveillance Tools Mayor London Breed’s priorities are all over your March 5 primary ballot, including one measure that proposes to give San Francisco police expanded use of drones and surveillance cameras.
SF News Supervisors Approve Giving SFPD Live Access to Private Security Cameras All Over Town The wildly controversial SFPD live monitoring of private security cameras is now official San Francisco city policy, as the Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to allow SFPD to monitor those security cameras all over town in real time.
Business & Tech Amazon to Bring Eerie-Sounding ‘Palm Scanner Payment Technology’ to SF Whole Foods Stores A bizarre biometric form of payment is coming to several Bay Area Whole Foods locations, allowing you to pay just by waving your palm. But is it worth handing your biological data to Amazon just to avoid the extremely menial task of pulling out a credit card?
SF News Billionaire-Backed Security Cameras Everywhere In SF Finally Getting Set of Rules For How They Can Be Used A full 10 years and 1,000 surveillance cameras later after a cryptocurrency mogul started putting security cameras all over town, we’re finally getting a set of rules on how they can and cannot be used.
SF News Security Cameras Are Coming To Dolores Park Dolores Park has long served as our adult playground for whimsical world record attempts, gigantic unlicensed events and of course leaving behind fantastical volumes of our trash, but the park's ugly underbelly often
SF News City Agencies About To Get OK To Start Flying Their Own Drones The rush to start flying drones through the skies of San Francisco has thus far consumed for-profit companies like Amazon, Google and Chipotle, all of which seek to to eventually test-fly various drone
SF News 42 More Cases Dropped Due To SFPD Surveillance Video Scandal (FOOTAGE) District Attorney (and former SFPD Chief) George Gascón announced today that, according to The Chronicle, "The misconduct investigation into a San Francisco police unit of undercover officers will force prosecutors to drop another
SF News San Francisco's Big Brother Cinéma Vérité Sucks, Claim Critics And speaking of cameras... While Chicago has seen crime rates plummet to their lowest numbers in over four decades due to the windy city's Big Brother program, San Francisco's attempt at panopticon-ish camera
