Microsoft Pushes Urgency of Regulating Facial-Recognition Technology
Society is ill-served ‘by a commercial race to the bottom,’ software company’s chief legal officer says
Microsoft Corp. is urging governments world-wide to enact regulation of facial-recognition technology next year that requires independent assessment of accuracy and bias and prohibits ongoing surveillance of specific people without a court order.
The technology giant’s push to police the emerging technology comes as rivals including Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, face increasing backlash over their privacy practices from lawmakers and others.
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