A Pause to Address ‘Ethical Debt’ of Facial Recognition

Earlier this summer, the US Technology Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery published a letter calling for the suspension of “current and future private and governmental use of [facial recognition] technologies in all circumstances known or reasonably foreseeable to be prejudicial to established human and legal rights.” The ACM is arguing that facial recognition is not mature enough to be used well, its potential has driven presumptive adoption of the technology, and that its use has compromised privacy and other human rights., They also believe its use should be paused until legal standards for accuracy, transparency, governance, risk management, and accountability can be established.

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