(New York, NY, 7/26/2023) – Today, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, condemned the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) proposal to use facial recognition to surveil gamers’ ages. The proposal was made in a filing to the Federal Trade Commission, detailing software that would use gamers’ photos to determine their age. The civil rights group warned that facial recognition bias would likely discriminate against gamers of color, women, and non-binary players.
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