Microsoft raises alarms about face recognition
July 13, 2018
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is calling on Congress to regulate the use of facial recognition technology to protect people's privacy and freedom of expression.
It's the first big tech company to raise serious alarms about an increasingly sought-after technology for recognizing a person's face from a photo or through a camera.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a blog post Friday that the government should form a bipartisan expert commission.
Smith says Microsoft, which supplies face recognition to some businesses, has already rejected some customers' requests to deploy the technology in...
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