Maryland: Use of Facial Recognition Services in Employment Interviews (Chapter 446 / HB 1202)
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Maryland House Bill 1202 (codified as Section 3-717 of the Labor and Employment Article) regulates the use of facial recognition services by employers during job applicant interviews. The statute strictly prohibits employers from using facial recognition services to create a facial template during an employment interview unless the applicant consents by signing a written waiver. Under the law, a facial recognition service includes technology that analyzes facial features for recognition or persistent tracking in images, and a facial template refers to the machine-interpretable pattern extracted from these images. The required waiver must be in plain language and specify the applicant's name, the date of the interview, explicit consent to facial recognition use, and confirmation of whether the applicant read the waiver.
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