Information & Ethics committee  That's a good question. I would say thank you very much for the invitation to submit materials. We would really appreciate that opportunity. We think the work the committee is doing here is very important, and we want to be as supportive and helpful as possible. I appreciate the

Information & Ethics committee  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. F

Information & Ethics committee  It's a very good question. I would say it is increasingly used. It is a technology that can have a lot of benefits, and I think individuals and organizations are realizing that. There are a few different applications. A lot of them have to do with security, such as verification

Information & Ethics committee  That's not the policy at present.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. To come back to what I referenced before, I think there's a framework of laws that we're looking for to ensure that facial recognition is used in a way that is rights-respecting. I think privacy law is a part of that. I think there's an opportunity to improve privacy framewo

Information & Ethics committee  We have our broader responsible AI program, which we have been developing for the last few years. It has a few components. We have a company-wide AI governance team. This is a multi-stakeholder team with some of our Microsoft researchers. These are world-leading AI researchers sh

Information & Ethics committee  We think that this is a really important part of the conversation, and it's for a number of reasons. The accuracy of facial recognition has improved markedly in recent years. There's some very good research being done by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for the question. It is the case that we don't sell facial recognition to local police in the U.S. I think our position is that it's really important to get law in place that can protect human rights in the context of facial recognition. I think one of the ch

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and vice-chairs, for the opportunity to contribute today. My name is Owen Larter. I'm in the public policy team in the Office of Responsible AI at Microsoft. There are really three points that I wa