Two Drafts Considered in NTIA's Facial Recognition Privacy Guidelines Meeting
Participants will discuss two drafts at Tuesday's NTIA meeting on developing best practice privacy guidelines for facial recognition technology used by commercial entities (see 1603180012). John Verdi, NTIA director-privacy initiatives, said in a message sent Friday that the goal is…
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to try to get consensus on one of the documents, which were circulated with comments from a working group. One of the drafts said the best practices, based on the Fair Information Practice Principles, are designed to provide a "flexible and evolving approach" to using the technology and keeping up with advancements. The FIPPs are a set of eight principles that are rooted in the tenets of the Privacy Act of 1974. The draft said it provides a "general roadmap" to help companies "recognize differing objectives, risks and individual expectations" for the different technological applications. Some issues covered include transparency, data minimization, use limitation and security safeguards. The guidelines won't apply to data aggregation uses nor for non-identifying analysis, and they also won't apply to law enforcement, government, intelligence and military entities.