Guests:

• Brandeis Marshall — data scientist & professor at Spelman College
• Matt Cagle — attorney, ACLU Northern California
• Keith Kaplan — councilman, Teaneck, NJ
• Ankita Shukla — PhD candidate, IIIT Delhi

Further Reading:

• Man arrested twice for bank robbery sues Denver, police and FBI for $10 million
• TALLEY v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER
• Face Recognition primer by EFF
• Facial recognition is increasingly common, but how does it work?
• FTC: Best Practices for Common Uses of Facial Recognition Technologies (2012)
• Facial recognition’s ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos scraped without consent
• The FBI Has Access to Over 640 Million Photos of Us Through Its Facial Recognition Database
• Why facial recognition’s racial bias problem is so hard to crack
• Facial recognition gives police a powerful new tracking tool. It’s also raising alarms.
• Gender and racial bias found in Amazon’s facial recognition technology (again)
• Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy
• When the Robot Doesn’t See Dark Skin
• Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots
• The NYPD uses altered images in its facial recognition system, new documents show
• San Francisco’s facial recognition technology ban, explained
• “Stop Secret Surveillance” ordinance 
• San Francisco Is Right: Facial Recognition Must Be Put On Hold
• ACLU Community Control Over Police Surveillance
• Primate Face Identification in the Wild
• Face Recognition: Primates in the Wild
• Facial recognition tool tackles illegal chimp trade
• Emerging technology could identity cattle through facial recognition
• Facial recognition tool ‘could help boost pigs’ wellbeing’
• Does A Pregnant Giraffe Deserve Privacy?

Actors:

• Evan Johnson as Mr. Morton
• David Romero as David
• Ash Greenberg as Ash
• Santos Flores as Santos
• Charlie Chalmers as Charlie
• Grace Nelligan as Grace
• Ava Ausman as Ava
• Sidney Perry-Thistle as Sidney
• Arthur Allison as Arthur

Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Special thanks to the Women’s Audio Mission, where all the intro scenes were recorded this season. Special thanks also to Evan Johnson who played Mr. Morton and also coordinated the actors of the Junior Acting Troupe who play the students in the intros this season. Here’s a fun fact about the intros this season, the actors, the teens, actually wrote their own scripts. I assigned them sides, and they had to come up with their arguments. So I actually did not know what they were going to say until we got into the studio. Special thanks to Veronica Simonetti and Erin Laetz at the Women’s Audio Mission, where all the intro scenes were recorded this season. Check out their work and mission at womensaudiomission.org.

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That’s all for this future, come back next time and we’ll travel to a new one.

Flash Forward is a critically acclaimed podcast about the future.

In each episode, host Rose Eveleth takes on a possible (or not so possible) future scenario — everything from the existence of artificial wombs, to what would happen if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth. What would the warranty on a sex robot look like? How would diplomacy work if we couldn’t lie? Could there ever be a black market for fecal transplants? (Complicated, it wouldn’t, and yes, respectively, in case you’re curious.) By combining audio drama and deep reporting, Flash Forward gives listeners an original and unique window into the future, how likely different scenarios might be, and how to prepare for what might come.