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Nai Anwar only recently learned that Erie County, New York, passed a law last month banning businesses from collecting customers’ facial recognition data.
The 38-year-old Muslim refugee from Myanmar, who resettled in Buffalo, New York, more than a decade ago and later became a U.S. citizen, had never attended a county legislative meeting. He didn’t even know stores were capable of collecting facial recognition data from customers walking through their doors…