- Microsoft (MSFT +0.9%) is pushing for the government to step up with laws and regulations of facial recognition technology.
- "All tools can be used for good or ill," President Brad Smith writes. "The last few months have brought this into stark relief when it comes to computer-assisted facial recognition."
- The technology is making great strides, Smith says, pointing to suggestions on social platforms like Facebook (FB +0.1%) and Google (GOOG +0.3%, GOOGL +0.1%) to tag a picture with a particular name. Microsoft is using the technology with an aim toward labor-saving as well.
- "This in fact is what we believe is needed today – a government initiative to regulate the proper use of facial recognition technology, informed first by a bipartisan and expert commission," he writes. Self-regulation by technology companies is an inadequate substitute for public decision-making, he adds.
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