Badlands

Two San Francisco gay bars, Badlands and Toad Hall in the Castro neighborhood, paused use of Patronscan Guard+, an AI-assisted ID verification technology, after community pushback over privacy concern…

Badlands and Toad Hall, two popular gay bars in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, paused their use of Patronscan Guard+, an AI-assisted ID verification reader, after community pushback over the wee…

Two famed San Francisco gay bars, Badlands and Toad Hall, are abandoning the AI-powered facial recognition platform PatronScan after a privacy backlash and boycott campaign led by advocacy group Fight…