"AI Now Launches 'Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Open Questions,'" 2 September, 2020

Amid heightened public scrutiny, interest in regulating biometric technologies like face and voice recognition has grown significantly across the globe... Advocates continue to remind developers, profiteers, and those using and regulating these biometric systems that the future course of these technologies must––and will–– be subject to greater democratic control. The next few years are poised to produce wide-ranging legal regulation in many parts of the world that could alter the future course of these technologies... AI Now worked with academics, advocates, and policy experts to publish a Compendium of case studies on current attempts to regulate biometric systems, and reflect on the promise, and the limits, of the law.

... In recent years, privacy advocates have demanded regulatory tools that ensure transparency as early in the process as possible... In the EU, advocacy organizations like Access Now and Algorithm Watch have called for a mandatory disclosure scheme for all AI systems used in the public sector, in conjunction with a mandatory human rights or algorithmic impact assessment...