Hello and welcome to Meanwhile in the Future, a podcast about, yes, you guessed it, the future.

Every week we take on a specific future scenario.

Every episode we start with a little trip into the future to hang out with some future people and see what's going on.

Then we hopped back to now, where I talked to some experts about how that future would really

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them to you. The Supreme Court will hear a case today involving the use of facial recognition technology by small businesses.

In 2018, Amanda Yoshiwara and her friend Nicole

Jin Shen were driving from their hometown of Athens, Ohio to college in upstate

New York. On the way, they stopped at a pizza parlor. As soon as the friends

exited her car, cameras in the parking lot identified their faces and immediately linked them to their

online profiles.

When they tried to enter, an employee stopped them and told them they weren't welcome inside.

The database the parlor used is part of a growing number of systems trained to pick out certain political and sexual identities.

Amanda's profile was flagged due to the fact that she had visited several pro-LgBT websites.

Nicole's profile included images of her at a peaceful demonstration supporting the independence

of Palestine.

The owner of Del Toro Pizza said in a statement that he has the right to refuse service to anyone as per a sign on his pizzeria

door.

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