Comment by Brian E. Finch

Facial recognition systems have generated a significant amount of controversy over their potential to create an unblinking, discriminatory surveillance system across the United States. A closer examination reveals that the best-crafted facial recognition systems do not produce results that discriminate against racial, ethnic, or gender groups. Creation of federal standards to push the use of non-discriminatory algorithms by government agencies is a far preferable alternative to a complete ban on the technology. Unverified source (2020)