NTIA Participants Plan June Meeting for Continuing Work on Facial Recognition Guide

NTIA will host a June 15 meeting for participants trying to hammer out a best practices document for the commercial use of facial recognition technology, said a notice in Friday's Federal Register. The process, which began more than two years ago, has been controversial, with several privacy and consumer protection advocates walking out last summer. They have said that any resulting voluntary code of conduct wouldn't provide adequate protections for the public. The remaining, mostly industry participants have inched closer to producing a document. Stakeholders met in late March in an NTIA-hosted meeting and then a subset group was developing a document that is expected to be discussed at the June meeting (see 1603290023). The 1-5 p.m. meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the American Institute of Architects boardroom, 1735 New York Ave. NW.