How face surveillance threatens your privacy and freedom | Kade Crockford

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Privacy isn't dead, but face surveillance technology might kill it, says civil rights advocate Kade Crockford. In an eye-opening talk, Kade outlines the startling reasons why this invasive technology -- powered by often-flawed facial recognition databases that track people without their knowledge -- poses unprecedented threats to your fundamental rights. Learn what can be done to ban government use before it's too late.

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:05.8	I'm your host, Elise Hu.
0:07.5	In today's talk, digital security activist Cade Crockford
0:10.5	bust through some myths about privacy.
0:13.1	Like this big one, that it's something we don't have to care about.
0:16.5	Cade gets into the grave implications of face surveillance technology
0:20.7	and free societies in this talk
0:23.1	at TEDx Cambridge in 2019.
0:27.7	How many of you have ever heard someone say privacy is dead? Raise your hand.
0:33.1	How many of you have heard someone say, they don't care about their privacy
0:37.5	because they don't have anything to hide?
0:40.1	Go on.
0:41.7	Now, how many of you use any kind of encryption software?
0:47.7	Raise your hand, or a password to protect an online account,
0:53.0	or curtains or blinds on your windows at home. Okay, so that's
0:59.3	everyone, I think. So why do you do these things? My guess is it's because you care about your
1:06.5	privacy. The idea that privacy is dead is a myth.
1:13.6	The idea that people don't care about their privacy because they have nothing to hide or they've done nothing wrong is also a myth.
1:19.7	I'm guessing that you would not want to publicly share on the Internet for the world to see all of your medical records
1:26.6	or your search histories from your phone or your computer.
1:31.5	And I bet that if the government wanted to put a chip in your brain
1:35.3	to transmit every one of your thoughts to a centralized government computer,
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