It's a really important question, and we definitely think that it's for government to play a leading role in creating a regulatory framework for technology in general, including technologies like facial recognition.
We've tried to do a couple of things over the last few years. First was to implement internal safeguards so that we're doing our bit as a vendor of facial recognition to make sure that the technology is being used responsibly. I talked about our responsible AI program. We also have our Face API transparency note, which I think is a really important part of the conversation and hits at this need for transparency around how facial recognition is developed and deployed.
This transparency note is a document that we make publicly available, and it is clear about how a system works in terms of some of the capabilities of the technology, limitations about the technology and what it shouldn't be used for and the factors that will affect performance, so that a customer using the technology is well informed and able to make informed and responsible deployment decisions.
That's some of what we've been doing internally. We do also think—because it's really important to build trust in technology in general and particularly in facial recognition, given some of the potential risks it can raise, which I mentioned in my remarks—that there is also a need for a regulatory framework.
We are keen to support those conversations. That's why we're very happy to be invited to discussions like this today. We really want to contribute our knowledge around how the technology works and where it is going so that we can create, led by governments and in conjunction with others across society like civil society, a good, robust regulatory framework for technology so that the benefits of this powerful technology can be realized in a way that also addresses some of the challenges.