Facial-Recognition Tech Gets Bipartisan Call for More Regulation

The use of facial-recognition software by law enforcement should be regulated, a bipartisan group of 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. “If we’re talking about finding some kind of meaningful regulation and oversight of facial recognition, which is what I think the chair is alluding to, then I think we can find a lot of common ground here,” he said.