Facial recognition technology and the war in Ukraine
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A controversial facial recognition company helps identify the dead in Ukraine. And a look at whether age verification tech can stop children viewing pornography online.
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| 0:39.9 | You're listening to Tech Tent from the BBC World Service. I'm Shona McCallum. And today we're |
| 0:46.5 | looking at the controversial facial recognition technology that's helping identify the dead |
| 0:51.8 | in Ukraine. They would say, hey, can you run this photo of a captured Russian soldier? |
| 0:58.4 | And it would find them on their social media in army uniform |
| 1:01.7 | with their Russian flag on their shoulder. |
| 1:06.4 | Will age verification technology stop kids seeing pornography on the internet. |
| 1:11.3 | It basically does a lot of sums and then spits out what it thinks your ages. It's not |
| 1:16.3 | recognising you uniquely at all. All it's doing is looking at the new face and giving an estimate. |
| 1:22.4 | Joining me in the tech tent is reporter Chris Valens. Chris, what have you been looking at? |
| 1:27.1 | I've been practically trying to keep up with the high-stakes business drama that is Elon Musk's |
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| 1:47.0 | But first, Ukraine. It's becoming increasingly clear in many areas where Russian forces |
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