California’s constitution opens with a broad, likely familiar, proclamation added on Nov. 5, 1974.

“All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.”

The prescience of this section is hard to overstate, especially as those inalienable rights have been attacked. Specifically, the right to privacy has progressively eroded in San Francisco thanks to partnerships between the police and private companies.

In 2019, San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition technology and nearly two dozen other municipalities followed suit shortly after. The hallmark vote in the city did little to stop the police f

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