Immigrant and civil rights groups urge govt to ban own use of FRT, limit private use

Rights groups continue to call on the U.S. government to limit governmental use of facial recognition technology.

Digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted comments to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which is currently preparing a report on the use of face recognition technology (FRT) by federal agencies and its implications.

The organization argues that the tech is not reliable enough to be used in decisions affecting constitutional and statutory rights or social benefits while facial recognition puts …

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