As the use of facial recognition rises in retail stores, privacy advocates fear there will be many challenges with regulating systems as they evolve, CNET reports. Recognition software is a useful security tool, but it teeters on a violation of personal privacy with instances of overreach and limited legal restriction. CNET learned that two facial-recognition providers don't monitor their customers' system use, and no laws require them to do so. "So far, we haven't been able to convince our legislators that this is a big problem and will be an even larger problem in the future," Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Litigation Director Jennifer Lynch said.
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