The White House is preparing to nominate Alvaro Bedoya, an academic who has criticized facial-recognition and other digital technologies that can be used for surveillance, to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission
WASHINGTON—, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Bedoya, a former Democratic congressional staffer, has served since 2014 as the founding director of Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy & Technology where he co-wrote that documented U.S. police departments’ use of facial-recognition technology and called for additional regulations.
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