Facial Recognition Rises to the Fore of Washington's Privacy Debate

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Facial recognition is about to become central to the debate about consumer privacy.

On Thursday, more than 120 participants representing businesses, social media, advertising, privacy advocates, policymakers—anyone who has an interest in privacy—will meet to begin hammering out voluntary guidelines for the use of facial recognition.

The meetings, which are likely to continue all year, were called by the Commerce Department and organized by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as part of the Administration's goal to develop a voluntary privacy bill of rights by convening government and private industry.

Facial recognition will be the second topic the group has taken on.

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