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Microsoft Calls on Congress To Regulate Face Recognition (axios.com)
Addressing a growing concern by privacy advocates and users alike over the usage of facial recognition by government bodies, Microsoft urged the US government on Friday to start thinking about what limits should be set on the use of such technologies. From a report: In a blog post, Microsoft also said it is consulting with outside groups to help set its own policies for how it will use and sell such technology. Face recognition can be used for a range of purposes, from reuniting missing kids to mass surveillance. Currently, there are few rules for those using or selling the technology. "The only effective way to manage the use of technology by a government is for the government proactively to manage this use itself," Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a blog post. "And if there are concerns about how a technology will be deployed more broadly across society, the only way to regulate this broad use is for the government to do so." For its own part, Smith said Microsoft is going to move slowly on commercial use of face recognition while it explores what its own policies should be.
Microsoft is crying for regulation because they are so far behind.
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You should worry about your data not because of the government or law enforcement but because of identity theft and fraud. We know that no system is absolutely secure and that the larger the data the more valuable it is and the bigger a target it is for those that would take advantage of it.
to generalize, so called modern "AI" is just data analysis, running on deterministic processors, using fuzzy logic aimed getting imperfect faster approximate results, rather than perfect results(which in some problems, especially real life problems. is impossible or near that).
as such what is done, is "knowable". there is no secret knowledge there.
secrets are due to humans rather than process or technology