The world focusses on facial recognition

Tech Life

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4.4 • 221 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Simon Gordon, founder of Facewatch, a British facial recognition company and Fraser Sampson, the UK's Biometrics and Surveillance Commissioner discuss the growing use of facial recognition tech. Dr. Cosmas Zavazava, Director of the ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau, tells us about how much of the world remains offline. And Tom Singleton reports on how a digital payment scheme, set up by the UNCDF, is proving to be a lifeline for people exposed to extreme weather in the Pacific Islands.

(PHOTO CREDIT: A young man captured by a facial recognition system. Credit: Izusek. Copyright: Getty Images)

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0:47.8	This week, in public places, in our homes and on our mobile phones,
0:52.0	our faces are being filmed and AI processed more than ever before.
0:56.7	Should we be worried? Privacy is and the right to privacy. It's not all one way. We all give up a
1:02.9	tiny bit of privacy to have police. We all give up a tiny bit of privacy to be in a law-abiding,
1:08.0	a nice, safe society. Difficulties we simply don't know how many devices are pointing at us in our cities.
1:15.8	And we probably should. I think we need a public review of exactly that.
1:21.8	We find out how much of the world's population is still offline.
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