Bloomberg Law: FTC’s Rite Aid Action Puts AI Facial Recognition Users on Notice 

The FTC’s action “signals to companies you really have to do some due diligence when you’re adopting an AI system,” said Ben Winters, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy advocacy group. 

… Issuing the order is just another way that the FTC is lapping Congress on AI regulatory issues, said Winters. 

“But they can only do so much,” he said. “They can only take it case by case. Legislation is what’s needed to codify some of these things.” 

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