Facial Recognition Under Spotlight in Congress, Amazon Meeting

Concerns over facial recognition technology are set to air on both coasts as lawmakers and shareholders weigh its civil rights implications.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee, in a May 22 hearing, plans to hear from a civil rights group and academics who have studied the technology and its use by police. The hearing comes amid a growing U.S. debate about whether and how law enforcement and the private sector should use the technology.

Government use of the technology “poses potential questions of constitutionality under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments,” the committee said in a statement. “These questions are ...