Microsoft raises alarms about face recognition

Facial recognition technology is useful to some, unnerving to others and is the latest Facebook privacy criticism. It's the first big tech company to raise serious alarms about an increasingly sought-after technology for recognizing a person's face from a photo or through a camera. Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a blog post Friday that the government should form a bipartisan expert commission. Many uses of facial recognition technology are "positive and potentially even profound," Smith said. "But other potential applications are more sobering.