Security camera manufacturers are asking government regulators for tighter oversight of temperature-detecting cameras, saying that a flood of new products prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic endangers public safety by providing inaccurate fever screenings.

Since last spring, hundreds of merchants have begun selling telethermographic systems—a category that includes dozens of devices such as cameras and kiosks that use infrared scanning and thermal imaging to detect body heat from a distance.

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This post first appeared on wsj.com

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