Labor and Employment - Use of Facial Recognition Services - Prohibition
United States · Law · General Assembly of Maryland
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This law prohibits employers from using facial recognition technology to create facial templates during job interviews unless applicants provide written consent. Applicants may consent by signing a waiver that discloses the applicant's name, interview date, consent to facial recognition use, and whether the waiver was read. The law applies to employers in Maryland.
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Labor and Employment, Facial Recognition Services, Prohibition
Prohibits employers from creating facial templates through facial recognition technology during job interviews unless applicants provide written consent via a waiver. Applicants may consent by signing a waiver that includes their name, interview date, acknowledgment of consent, and confirmation of whether they read the waiver. The Act defines facial recognition service as technology analyzing facial features for recognition or tracking in images, and facial template as the machine-readable facial feature pattern extracted from images.
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Labor and Employment, Facial Recognition Services, Prohibition 2 controls
- ProhibitionApplies to: DeployerDrafted by the Index
Employers must not create facial templates from facial recognition technology during job interviews unless applicants provide written consent through a signed waiver.
- RightApplies to: OthersDrafted by the Index
Applicants may consent to facial template creation by signing a waiver that documents their name, interview date, acknowledgment of consent, and confirmation of whether they read the waiver.
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