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Moving Upstream

Season 2 Episode 7

Facial Recognition Tech Aims to Identify Good and Evil

Moving Upstream explores how the technology is becoming a growing tool for law enforcement and security efforts

By Hilke Schellmann

Facial recognition is going mainstream. The technology is increasingly used by law-enforcement agencies and in schools, casinos and retail stores, spurring privacy concerns. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ’s Jason Bellini tests out the technology at an elementary school in Seattle and visits a company that claims its algorithm can identify potential terrorists by their facial features alone.

WSJ's Jason Bellini explores the trends, technologies, ideas and challenges that are headed our way in this video series. In each episode, we visit the places, and meet the people who can help us to better understand what's upstream.

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