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Facebook's five billion dollar bill

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The social network reaches a record settlement with regulators over users' data privacy. Will it change how Facebook operates? Plus, is opposition to using facial recognition technology in public places growing? And, we get a rare glimpse into the online activities of Russia's intelligence agencies. Presented by Chris Fox, with BBC North America tech reporter Dave Lee, and special guest technology researcher Stephanie Hare.

(Image: Person trying the Facebook Portal device during the F8 2019 developers conference, Credit:Justin Sullivan /Getty Images).

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.6

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.3

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.8

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.8

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:15.9

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.8

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.1

Science with funny bits.

0:21.9

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.1

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:28.0

Thanks for downloading the TechTent podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:31.9

Find out more about us at BBCworldservice.com slash TechTent.

0:38.8

Hello and welcome to TechTent, the show that looks at technology and how it shapes our lives.

0:44.2

I'm Chris Fox standing in for Rory, who's on holiday this week.

0:47.5

Coming up, a record $5 billion settlement between Facebook and a US regulator over privacy concerns,

0:55.2

will this be enough to make Facebook change its ways? And hackers have given the world a rare look at what the Russian security

1:00.9

services may be up to. With me to discuss all this is our North America technology correspondent,

1:06.3

Dave Lee. He's in San Francisco.

1:09.2

Morning Chris. Hi, yes, that's a huge fine, isn't it?

1:11.4

But there's plenty of people here that don't think it's going to go far enough to make Facebook change in any real way at all.

1:18.0

And with me in London is the technology consultant, Stephanie Hare.

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