BBC News reports that "Privacy campaigners have walked out of talks aimed at creating a code of conduct for companies keen to use facial-recognition technology. In an open letter, the groups said they had quit because of "fundamental" differences over use of the technology. And there had been little prospect that the talks would have produced "adequate protections" for citizens. People deserved better protection than the talks had been likely to have produced, they said. The discussions, brokered by the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the body that oversees technology policy issues, began in February 2014. Nine separate privacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for Democracy and Technology, were invited. But the groups' letter said the companies involved had refused to accept they needed prior permission from people being identified by the technology."
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