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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, December 15th, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown. In many contexts, your face

is your ID, and as technology develops to track individuals as they move about a city, governments are increasingly aware of that fact.

Claire Garvey is an associate at the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology.

At the Cato Institute's SpyCon, we spoke about the Wild West environment of governments and corporations

making use of your face for their own ends.

We were talking right before we started recording about corporate uses of facial recognition technology that the one you pointed to was

casinos using facial recognition technology and one upside for that might be

compulsive gamblers who want to keep themselves out of a casino.

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