U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hears need for regulation of facial recognition technology

Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights regarding federal agencies’ use of facial recognition technology suggests a need for regulation -- including requirements for independent audits of vendors -- in its procurement.

“We are a proponent of facial recognition regulation,” Hoan Ton-That, founder and CEO of the facial recognition company Clearview AI, told the commission during a March 8 hearing focused specifically on use of the technology by the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and...