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US FTC's Bedoya says facial recognition like no other surveillance technology

( May 18, 2023, 22:37 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission member Alvaro Bedoya, in separate remarks on the FTC's policy statement on when uses of biometric technology might violate Section 5 of the FTC Act, argued that facial recognition is different than other types of surveillance technology. "One of the things I’ve learned is that people really care about technology that tracks your body," Bedoya wrote. "Because that’s what this is. For most of history, surveillance technology has tracked your technology. Your car, your phone, your computer. Biometric surveillance tracks your body. It can track your face, your voice, the distinctive way you carry your body. And it can do that in secret and from far away, in a way that used to be impossible. And in a way that is unavoidable."See document below....

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