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Boston Calling: Face Value

Face Value

06/01/2018 GMT

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A pilot programme to use facial identification machines is underway at nine US airports

Flying out of the US? You might have to go through a facial scan at the airport. We discuss the implications of that. 

Plus: we find out why a selfie app that drastically alters the way you look is all the rage in China; we get introduced to the women artists of the Renaissance who have been hidden in the archives; we meet a man who survived the Holocaust by drawing portraits of his Nazi guards; plus comedian Dean Obeidallah discovers that for a moment he was literally the face of fake news. 
(Image: Passengers have their luggage screened at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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