Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) is calling for a total ban on the use of facial recognition software for policing, according to a "Justice and Safety for All" pledge he released. 

Biometric records containing more than a million fingerprints has been left exposed in a publicly accessible database that included a total of 27.8 million records that featured facial images, uncrypted user names, passwords, employee records and logs of entry to secure areas, among other sensitive information.

Intrusion detection, lockdown initiation, fingerprint matching. What other security solutions can you expect to see at GSX this September?

Facial recognition software marketed to law enforcement agencies shows it mistakenly matched the faces of one out of five lawmakers, 26 lawmakers total, with images in an arrest photo database, including Phil Ting’s, San Francisco, CA Assemblymember and proponent of the AB 1215. The bill, also known as The Body Camera Accountability Act, bans facial recognition and biometric surveillance in police body cameras. 

In a recent study, respondents say that mobile technology enables them to optimize inventory planning and management (96 percent) and point-of-sale (96 percent), personalize the customer experience (96 percent), as well as boost employee productivity and motivation (95 percent).

The use of facial recognition in the United States public sector has received a great deal of press lately, and most of it isn’t positive. 

The city council of Oakland, Calif. has voted to ban the municipal use of facial recognition technology within its borders.

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have allegedly turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition database, scanning millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent. 

The State Education Department said that it is not allowing the Lockport City School District to use or test its facial recognition security system. 

The Somerville, Mass. City Council has voted to ban the use of facial recognition technology in public spaces.