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FTC to Host Facial Recognition Forum

November 22, 2011

The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a facial recognition technology forum on December 8 at the FTC Conference Center.

The workshop is free and open to the public and will focus on commercial applications of facial detection and recognition technology. A webcast of the proceedings will be available here.

View the agenda and register.

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