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Starting in February of last year, privacy advocates joined with marketing and retail industry leaders to look for common ground on consumer surveillance. The goal was to produce a voluntary code of conduct for companies using facial recognition in their business, overseen by the Department of Commerce. Now, that group is splintering apart, with all nine privacy advocates withdrawing from the proceedings in protest, including representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Center for Democracy and Technology.
At midnight Monday night, the group issued a statement explaining the withdrawal, saying, “people deserve more protection than they are likely to get in this forum.” The sticking point…
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Privacy advocates quit facial-recognition group in protest http://www.danieluk.net/news/privacy-advocates-quit-facial-recognition-group-in-protest/ #Code, #Technology
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