The FTC released a policy statement warning about consumers' biometric information potentially being misused as AI and machine learning make such data more accessible than ever.
last week warned that the increasingly pervasive use of consumers’ biometric data, including by technologies powered by machine learning and AI, poses risks to consumers’ privacy and data. Biometric information is data that depicts or describes physical, biological or behavioral traits and characteristics, including measurements of an identified person’s body or a person's voiceprint.
The FTC, led by Commissioner Lina Khan, released a policy statement warning about the misuse of consumers' biometric data, including by AI and machine learning programs.violate their privacy and civil rights"For example, using biometric information technologies to identify consumers in certain locations could reveal sensitive personal information about them such as whether they accessed particular types of healthcare, attended religious services, or attended political or union meetings.
The FTC’s policy statement noted that advancements in machine learning have contributed in part to facial recognition technologies becoming 20 times better at finding a matching photograph from a database from 2014 to 2018, according to National Institute of Standards and Technology research. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., recently opened an AI-related hearing with a deepfake of his voice delivering an opening statement authored by ChatGPT.
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