Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition, saying it's too risky to leave to tech industry alone

Microsoft is calling for government regulation on facial-recognition software, one of its key technologies, saying such artificial intelligence is too important and potentially dangerous for tech giants to police themselves. On Friday, company president Brad Smith urged lawmakers in a blog post to form a bipartisan and expert commission that could set standards and ward against abuses of face recognition, in which software can be used to identify a person from afar without their consent. "This technology can catalog your photos, help reunite families or potentially be misused and abused by private companies and public authorities alike," Smith wrote. "The only way to regulate this broad use is for the government to do so." Could that be used against immigrants?]