Yesterday, in the second in a series of meetings to develop a voluntary code of conduct around the application of facial recognition technology, the scope of the code was debated. Led by the National Telecommunications and Internet Administration’s (NTIA) John Verdi, the talks centered on whether or not there should be a dual use structure for facial recognition’s commercial and government use; specifics on how the technology actually works and links with databases, and how much more time should be spent fact finding on facial recognition. Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/US, reports for The Privacy Advisor on where the contention, and possible consensus, lies.
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