White House AI policy a ‘seismic policy shift’ for biometrics developers and vendors

The World Privacy Forum (WPF) has logged its first impressions of the White House’s new AI policy, with a focus on biometric use cases. In language published as a blog post and a downloadable document, Executive Director Pam Dixon says the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memorandum “provides an extensive and in some ways surprising articulation of emergent guardrails around modern AI.”

The OMB memorandum lays out minimum practices for “Safety-impacting and rights-impacting Artificial Intelligence.” …

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