Human rights organizations are expressing support for the U.S. government’s plans to introduce new export controls on facial recognition systems and recommending additional controls on remote biometric identification. The recommendations were submitted this week by ten groups, including Freedom House, Access Now, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. In July, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Security and Industry (BIS) proposed amendments introducing two new item controls for facial recognition to the Commerce Control List (CCL). The new rules would create controls for facial recognition systems that are designed for mass surveillance and crowd scanning and give foreign governments the ability to monitor, track or detain people unlawfully. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202410/human-rights-groups-want-tighter-us-export-controls-for-facial-recognition