Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act of 2019

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    Face Recognition Privacy Act aims to protect your identifying info

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    03.15.2019

    US Senators Roy Blunt and Brian Schatz want to protect people's facial recognition data and make it much harder to sell now that information is treated as currency. The lawmakers have introduced the bipartisan Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act of 2019, which prohibits companies from collecting and resharing face data for identifying or tracking purposes without people's consent.