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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 US 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.

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