Privacy advocates announced today that they will abandon the U.S. government’s effort to establish voluntary protocols for facial recognition technology. As BiometricUpdate.com originally reported over two years ago, the National Telecommunication and Information Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce, developed a consultation process to examine the commercial use of the technology and write a voluntary code of conduct for private companies that use it. According to the government, stakeholders discussed how best facial recognition data could be
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