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Do biometrics protect or compromise our privacy? | All Hail The Algorithm

‘Follow Me’: You Can Run But You Can’t Hide I can unlock my phone with my face, you can access your bank account with your voice and fingerprints are often the key piece of information on a national ID card. All of this – face, voice, fingerprints – they’re our biometrics. Unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionising the process of identification. But biometrics are far from perfect – their convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a price – most crucially, our privacy. Join Ali Rae in episode 4 of ‘All Hail The Algorithm’ – a 5 part series exploring the impact of these invisible codes on our everyday […]