Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been beating the privacy drum hard this week during an appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, telling attendees that the US needs its own version of Europe’s new GDPR regulatory framework. And, speaking of regulations, he’s also been especially vocal that facial recognition technology desperately needs governmental oversight now, or very soon, before tech companies take things to the extreme and use it to cross too many lines and inadvertently add frightening new capabilities to the surveillance state.
Nadella’s comments in Davos on the need for general privacy regulation have been a bit broad and high-level, but he’s been particularly specific about face recognition technology, describing it as basically the Wild West right now in the tech industry. As in, it’s little understood by outsiders, there’s a ton of potential for misuse and not a lot of robust constraints at the moment.
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