In Facial Recognition Technologies in the Wild: A Call for a Federal Office, researchers Erik Learned-Miller, Joy Buolamwini, Vicente Ordóñez, and Jamie Morgenstern propose an FDA-inspired model that categorizes facial recognition technologies— or “FRTs” for short — by degrees of risk and devises corresponding guidelines and redlines for control. Facial Recognition Technologies: A Primer provides a basic introduction to the terminology, applications, and difficulties of evaluating this complex set of technologies. Download below.