https://qz.com/1327920/microsoft-wants-congress-to-regulate-facial-recognition/

Microsoft is asking Congress to create a bipartisan, expert-led committee to draft regulations for facial recognition, the company’s president Brad Smith wrote in a blog post today.

But the rules aren’t just to keep tech companies on the right track. Microsoft argued that regulation is necessary because it also lays foundations for what the US government can and can’t do with the technology as well, creating safeguards for citizens against constant surveillance that the technology could facilitate. Smith also wrote that the company had turned down customers that had requested the use of facial recognition on “human rights risks.”