At a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing Tuesday, government and law enforcement representatives testified on the ways they are using facial-recognition technologies to aid in criminal investigations. Lawmakers expressed concern and — at times, dismay — that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not implemented recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office in 2016 for the FBI's facial-recognition technology protocols. They also noted alarming testimony, made by academics and privacy advocates in the first in this series of hearings, that testing of the technology indicates algorithmic deficiencies resulting in false-positive matches of suspects, disproportionately so for minorities and especially women of color. The IAPP's Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, has the details from the hearing for The Privacy Advisor.
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