Face Value
A pilot programme to use facial identification machines is underway at nine US airports
Flying out of the US? You might have to go through a facial scan at the airport. We discuss the implications of that.
Plus: we find out why a selfie app that drastically alters the way you look is all the rage in China; we get introduced to the women artists of the Renaissance who have been hidden in the archives; we meet a man who survived the Holocaust by drawing portraits of his Nazi guards; plus comedian Dean Obeidallah discovers that for a moment he was literally the face of fake news.
(Image: Passengers have their luggage screened at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Russian trolls stole a photo of my face
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- Sat 6 Jan 201800:32GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Sat 6 Jan 201805:32GMTBBC World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & South Asia
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- Sun 7 Jan 201805:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa
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