Principles for facial recognition technology: A content analysis of ethical guidance in the United States

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI:10.3233/hsm-230099

Heather Elaine Domin, Sondria Miller

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Facial recognition technology can significantly benefit society if used ethically. Various private sector, government, and civil society groups have created guidance documents to help guide the ethical use of this technology. OBJECTIVE: The study’s objective was to identify the common themes in these ethical guidance documents and determine the prevalence of those themes. METHODS: A qualitative content analysis of 25 facial recognition technology ethical guidance documents published within the United States or by international groups that included representation from the United States. RESULTS: The results show eight themes within the facial recognition technology ethical guidance documents: privacy, responsibility, accuracy and performance, accountability, transparency, lawful use, fairness, and purpose limitation. The most prevalent themes were privacy and responsibility. CONCLUSIONS: By following common ethical recommendations, industry actors can help address the challenges that may arise when seeking to develop, deploy, and use facial recognition technology. The research findings can inform the current debates regarding the ethical use of this technology and might help further the development of ethical norms within the industry.

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面部识别技术的原则：美国伦理指导的内容分析

背景：如果合乎道德地使用人脸识别技术，可以极大地造福社会。各种私营部门、政府和民间社会团体已经制定了指导文件，以帮助指导如何合乎道德地使用这项技术。目的：本研究的目的是找出这些伦理指导文件中的共同主题，并确定这些主题的普遍程度。方法：对美国国内或包括美国代表在内的国际组织发布的 25 份面部识别技术伦理指导文件进行定性内容分析。结果：结果显示，面部识别技术伦理指导文件中有八个主题：隐私、责任、准确性和性能、问责制、透明度、合法使用、公平和目的限制。最普遍的主题是隐私和责任。结论：通过遵循共同的伦理建议，行业参与者可以帮助解决在寻求开发、部署和使用面部识别技术时可能出现的挑战。研究结果可以为当前关于如何合乎道德地使用这项技术的辩论提供信息，并可能有助于进一步制定行业内的道德规范。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

30.40%

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.