State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

When Regulating New Tech Harms Public Safety

NextGov: Humans innately use facial recognition from the moment we are born. Now our tech devices are mimicking our own facial recognition skills to provide tremendous new conveniences that streamline our lives. This emerging technology already helps us to unlock our phones and doors, bypass the need for passwords, and expedite security clearance at airports. More applications are just around the corner.

As with many other new technologies, facial recognition’s popularity has attracted the attention of privacy advocates, civil rights groups and government regulators. Illinois, for example, enacted a law that enables lawsuits against facial recognition services, which caused Nest and Shutterfly to no longer offer service to the state’s consumers.

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