what kind of bargain are you willing to as. well as for in julian sanchez now in new york he s a senior fellow at the cato institute a libertarian think tank and studies technology privacy and civil liberties thanks for being with us facial recognition technology is getting a lot of buzz lately not just for security but also as we saw in that report for convenience it s even part of the i phone ten technology to unlock your phone so how much of our privacy are we really sacrificing for convenience. you know as with a lot of technologies the implementation. has a lot to do with how serious the privacy concerns surrounding technology are and in particular again stripping a lot of technologies how networked and search the technology is is a critical determinant i have how invasive it can be so if you re talking about the the i phone it winds up uses facial recognition to unlock. very few privacy
this could be the future of crime fighting this european developed prototype scans live video for criminal behavior and then automatically sends video clips to authorities it was developed in part with funding from the european commission. if implemented it could be a big step forward for fighting crime. in the wall there is. interest in the sale. of used to crime. but many in europe are on come. troubled with this level of public surveillance hid their faces in protest when facial recognition was unveiled saying the system violated their privacy. and that would be as if i went up to each person in the train station and demanded that they give me their fingerprints it s unspeakable in a democracy and in a constitutional state that mission and there s
a potential for abuse if used improperly systems could track one segment of the population. china has already been accused of using its program to monitor government critics but if used properly computers could actually be less biased than people just get used to it by people that have certain. behavior and they pay more attention to that. program that they can t you know wave that is that nasty race. or they dress that you are. biased as technology improves facial recognition will be hard to stop berlin is just one of several european cities with test projects and recently moscow launched a surveillance system similar to china where being watched and this is something that we ve come to accept trading a bit of privacy for more security china is taking that bargain to whole new level
actually even the do is convince the side of the story that continues to fascinate the world more than half a century later so what bumps in the washington post thanks for being with us thank you. well in china technology companies are racing to embrace the latest in a facial recognition software the technology is a revolution or a security officials and for shoppers alike the privacy activists are growing increasingly concerned especially as similar technology makes its way into europe we sent our reporter call not to find out more. this might look like a science fiction movie but it s real a glimpse into an orwellian future that s already here. these surveillance cameras in china are tracking and identifying citizens in real time. it s part of the