Facial-recognition tech gets US bipartisan call for more regulation

Regulating the facial-recognition industry could be part of a bipartisan effort to reform policing practices, Arizona’s Biggs said. — AFP Relaxnews

The use of facial-recognition software by law enforcement should be regulated, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers said, amid concerns of misidentification and violations of constitutional rights and due process.

“We should be engaged in oversight and legislative response,” Texas Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security said at a hearing Tuesday. The top Republican on the panel, Representative Andy Biggs backed the sentiment.