Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

People have become used to the idea that online behavior is monitored, recorded, monetized,

but as facial recognition technology improves, there's much more concern about surveillance in the real world.

You can turn off your phone, but you can't turn off your face.

And you know all that advertising that plays to stereotypes

about men who can't cook and women who can't park?

In Britain anyway, there's soon going to be a lot less of it,

thanks in part to regulators clamping down

and to consumers who increasingly dislike being told what they can and can't do.

But first,

amid escalating tensions with Iran,

America's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo,

issued a statement on Tuesday,

outside the U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida.

We have been engaged in many messages, even this moment right here, communicating to Iran,

that we are there to deter aggression. President Trump does not want war, and we will continue

to communicate that message while doing the things that are necessary to protect American

interests in the region. But also this week, the Trump administration announced it will send a thousand additional

troops to the Middle East. This came in the wake of last week's attacks on two oil tankers

in a crucial shipping lane in the Gulf of Oman. It is the assessment of the United States government

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