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Digital Planet: Is facial recognition violating people's privacy?

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A technician tests the face recognition function of intelligent patrol robot 'Meibao' in Beijing, China 20 March 2019.

21/05/2019 GMT

Is facial recognition violating people's privacy?

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Is facial recognition violating people's privacy?

Facial recognition is banned in one city but is rising elsewhere. Is this an AI too far?

Facial recognition could be a privacy violation; A new exhibition at the Barbican Centre focusses on AI; Would you biohack yourself and have a microchip inserted into you hand?

Facial recognition software concerns
San Francisco has banned it, while other cities are trailing it...facial recognition software is becoming more commonplace.  Perhaps there is little you can do to avoid it but would you be keen to help create it? Stephanie Hare is on the programme to discuss if users of the Ever app knew about the use of their photos to create technology that is being sold elsewhere.

AI - friend or foe?
In western culture machine learning and AI is viewed with some apprehension but in eastern societies it's seen much more as a partnership between human and robot or algorithm.  Gareth and Ghislaine discuss these and other differences in our attitudes towards the tech with Suzanne Livingston and Maholo Uchida, the co-curators of the Barbican Centre's new exhibition; AI More than Human.

Microchip fashion
Why have some four thousand ordinary Swedes had micro-chips inserted in their hands? The practice is part of a much broader, global and diverse biohacking movement outside of traditional institutions that modifies bodies with novel technologies in order to improve life.  Snezana Curcic has been finding out more.

Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

Main Image:  A technician tests the face recognition function of intelligent patrol robot 'Meibao' in Beijing, China 20 March 2019. Credit:  VCG / VCG via Getty Images.

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