#1534 Every Move You Make (Facial Recognition, TikTok, and Surveillance Capitalism 2.0)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 1/3/2022
Today, we take a look at the emerging implementation of facial recognition technology in public and commercial spaces along with the tracking and "amplifagandizing" capabilities of TikTok
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Twitter, Facial Recognition and the First Amendment - The Lawfare Podcast - Air Date 4-15-21
This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jameel Jaffer and Ramya Krishnan of the Knight First Amendment Institute.
Ch. 2: Addressing the TikTok Threat Part 1 - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 9-8-22
TikTok, the flagship app of the Chinese company Bytedance, recently surpassed Google and Facebook as the most popular site on the internet in 2021, and is expected to reach more than 1.8 billion users by the end of 2022.
Ch. 3: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/privacy,-your-face-and-the-rise-of-facial-recognition/13946990
Several large retailers, including Kmart and Bunnings, already use facial recognition technology in their stores – collecting biometric data that is as unique as a fingerprint – but are customers aware of how their facial data is being captured and used?
Ch. 4: NJ Legal Rights & NYPD's Facial Recognition Technology - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 9-30-22
Alexander Shalom, senior supervising attorney and director of Supreme Court advocacy at the ACLU-NJ, talks about the implications of a case in Hudson County, NJ, where a suspect was identified using the NYPD's facial recognition technology.
Ch. 5: The problem with banning TikTok - Vox - Air Date 8-29-20
TikTok’s in trouble. But so is the internet as we know it.
Ch. 6: Are You Feeding a Powerful Facial Recognition Algorithm? - NOVA PBS Official - Air Date 4-23-21
Facial recognition technology has great potential to help law enforcement identify suspects. But collecting and storing data from online photos has raised concern among critics.
Ch. 7: Addressing the TikTok Threat Part 2 - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 9-8-22
Ch. 8: Why Facial Recognition Technology Is So Dangerous - Second Thought - Air Date 7-3-20
Government crackdowns, hyper-personalized ads, real-time location tracking of citizens. Mass surveillance is a growing threat in the modern world. In this episode, we'll take a look at why it's so dangerous.
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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode, I'm going to be telling you about a podcast I think you should |
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| 0:14.7 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left Podcast and which we |
| 0:19.3 | shall take a look at the emerging implementation of facial recognition technology in public |
| 0:24.2 | and commercial spaces, along with the tracking and amplification andizing capabilities of |
| 0:30.8 | TikTok. Clips today are from the Law Fair Podcast, Your Undivided Attention, Life Matters, |
| 0:38.0 | The Brian Lerishow, Vox, Nova from PBS, and second thought with additional members only |
| 0:44.7 | clips from Nerd, Writer 1 and Andrew Russo, and Stay tuned to the end where I'll explain |
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| 0:56.9 | Cliviu AI is a facial recognition technology company. And new surface, I think last year, |
| 1:13.1 | this company has been surreptitiously scraping billions of images from the internet to feed |
| 1:21.6 | an app that it's created. And so basically what it does is it scrapes these images of people, |
| 1:29.0 | these people that haven't consented to the collection of their images. And the app basically |
| 1:37.4 | extracts what's called a face print from these images. And this face print is the equivalent |
| 1:44.4 | of a fingerprint. It's the sort of precise facial geometry that sort of maps onto your face. |
| 1:52.4 | And this app has been sold to numerous public agencies. I think the BuzzFeed article noted |
| 1:59.0 | that the app was accessed by employees at over 2000 agencies. Cliviu has since basically |
| 2:07.6 | promised that it will only sort of sell access to law enforcement agencies. It's obviously |
| 2:15.0 | incredibly sort of scary business model, I think, to anybody that has about privacy and |
| 2:22.4 | also free speech in the digital age. Because I think most people expect that they have |
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