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The lawmakers’ new letter to the FTC highlights apparent inconsistencies in ID.me’s comments about whether it uses one-to-one facial recognition, which compares one photo to one point of reference, such as identity document, or one-to-many recognition, which compares a photo to a database of images of other faces. The latter “means that millions of innocent people will have their photographs endlessly queried as part of a digital ‘line up.’ Not only does this violate individuals’ privacy, but the inevitable false matches associated with one-to-many recognition can result in applicants being wrongly denied desperately-needed services for weeks or even months as they try to get their case reviewed,” the letter states.Do you work for a facial recognition company? Are you a customer? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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