If it is bound by good legal protections, the technology is a boon, not a tool for tyranny.

[face recognition] holds great promise for catching bad actors, helping people with Alzheimer’s and  allowing insurance, medical, and financial professionals to detect fraud. It can also help enhance safety, protect our borders and prevent terrorism.”

The fact is, properly used, facial-recognition tools are a boon for governments and citizens alike. In some places, they’ve been deployed to protect borders and other vulnerable sites. In others, they’re helping to fight sex trafficking and find missing children. Police use them to identify suspects, track down fugitives, and speed up investigations.”

How many years will it take to get past paranoid fears about facial-recognition  technology? The idea that Big Brother could abuse it is no reason to throw away a useful tool.”

The technology has quietly become an accepted, widespread and even celebrated part of Americans’ everyday lives.

Given these high rates of unsolved crime, the threat of terrorism, and the waves of human trafficking, and given that FR uses information voluntarily shared by the public and that it is much less invasive than DNA tests and even the routine screening conducted in airports, Congress should ensure that FR is used properly, but not ban it nor slow it down.

From airports to retail establishments, this tech is taking the customer and employee experience to new heights … [and] facial recognition is actually becoming a usable reality and not in the scary way we’ve seen in sci-fi movies. Almost every major phone company has a phone with some form of facial recognition built in.”

The give-and-take of democracy will protect us from abuse.”