the u.k. collects biometrics from another key segment of the population one that many wouldn't even consider children if you're aware that schools have been recording the biometrics of children for the past 20 years it is estimated that since 1909 approximately 70 to 80 percent of children in the u.k. have interacted with some sort of biometric device in school picking is a parent campaign official rights and creator of the biometrics and school blog i think companies are putting the tech into a school setting because you put a compliant population in school children might ask of question if they're being surveilled little bit more general population to them because they don't know any better the concern i have with biometrics in schools is that the way back in 1999 and throughout the whole of the next decade institute 1000 is that way as an adult population when using biometrics at all not even on phones and suddenly we had children as young as 3 and 4 using their fingerprint to get in and out of school

systems the growth of affordable biometric technology means that fingerprints iris scans facial recognition and infrared palm scanning have been used to speed up access to canteens libraries registrations payments and lucky's a big selling point of course has been security by metric unable to access is seen as a foolproof way of keeping school building safe however a big concern is how robust the systems are who has access to the biometric data is there a process for deletion and what happens if the system is compromised i also sent the puppet occasion a few years ago freedom of information request about a tech the software a technique written standards that adhering to sort of international standards at the hardware secure nobody could answer no no we've never text system no with that method and international standard it's just seems to have sort of been going under the carpet and nobody is aware of. you know what's in schools what's being sold to

schools who are thoughts as to whether or not there's been any biometric data breaches for entire generations of british school children questions of consent around their biometrics have been bypassed to a great extent it was only in 2012 that a law was enacted putting in place processes for consent to be given or withheld the overall effect of biometrics in schools however is that the sharing in use of very personal data and implications of surveillance of the normalized millions of british children who've been taught to understand that it's no big deal to hand over your body data in order to get a service or a product they don't understand how it can be abused unnecessarily there's no reason that they should understand it because nobody's helping them to understand it we haven't had public discussion about it the test but the slots it isn't necessary to tag because we've got the tech already thinks that. and if you go into schools and you desensitize to normalize the surveillance technology the smart city

is there already you know pretty good for them getting to it so i think there's a good argument sort of for all to be a little bit. wary of the word smart and especially when it sort of with smart cities or smart notorious because it is to sense the assailants. it would be one thing if extensive biometric systems would be just used by governments and state funded organizations like the un it would make the lack of accountability and accuracy or outdated security protocols any easier to live with but at least across many countries governments can be questioned pressured to give answers of some. the reality however is that biometrics are increasingly being used by private companies shopping mall recruitment agencies online d.n.a. and ancestry services and even private security companies all of them a taking and using our biometrics and finding out how the technologies being used what daughter is being stored and with whom it's being shed not just today but also

in the future involves a lot of probing because these transparent systems even some of them are seemingly benign. can pose a threat to people for instance are really interested in finding out about their family history so they're handing over their d.n.a. to companies like. combination of the world's largest d.n.a. and family tree databases who can show you a more precise picture of your origin if you. have you were right about your d.n.a. with a private company than you do with law enforcement right there. in your head for just a moment and the implications through and from country of your d.n.a. could be used to reveal for instance predispositions to health problems that you might have and in countries where there isn't national health insurance and you have to pay to be insured. and you would never know maybe even how they got the data because this is all being potentially traded by 3rd party brokers. because no

one is regulated. by metrics are really power. and they'd be. more reliably. but also to judge and to make assessments about your personality and your behavior. there are companies that offer this exact. take for example on its website it says that leverage is a i in video to provide comprehensive candid insights when a candidate takes a video interview there creating thousands of unique points of data a candidate to verbal and nonverbal cues give us insight into their emotional engagement thinking and problem solving style according to high view its services are already being used by big employers like unilever vodafone and dunkin donuts. this is something that's increasingly used in the real world is that the share range of things we can i do and the ways that we can use data to affect people's

lives so for example machine learning systems are used to. recommend adverts and shop ensnares but they're also used to assess people for jail sentences and so if those algorithms have got problems whether they be technical accuracy is or biassed with an algorithm we need to start trust and i've heard of issues ryan kelly is a researcher on computing and information systems at the university of melbourne he's been involved in an elaborate biometric experiment to raise awareness about the potentials and limitations of biometric analysis it's called biometric mera and i gave it a go using nothing but an image of my face the system produces a detailed report and its assessment of my age race level of attractiveness and even aspects of my personality ranging from happiness and we'd miss to aggressiveness and responsibility to teach the algorithm to do this research is us human volunteers to judge thousands of photos for the same characteristics in

a. time everyday yet they really do not hurt you and your network. now it's easy to laugh at the results or shrug them off as just a bit of fun but there's more to it than that. so one of the reasons it's important to teach people about the limitations of artificial intelligence and these kinds of analyses is because people might assume that because it's done by a computer its objective and correct and what they might not realize actually an operation like by much marrow draws on a data set of faces that of being rated by people and so those ratings contain human biases so one example in the state so much of merits that anybody with a beard is classified as aggressive so of course i am classified as an aggressive person by biometric merit even though i don't think i am i hope i'm not so if an operation like this is the plot in the real world immediately people are classified perhaps unfairly and in ways that aren't actually my say so for example you could

imagine a scenario where you have a set of job accounts and you want to make it easy for people to. kind of. filter them based on say responsibility so somebody who is responsible for that task might say oh i can use biometric merit to identify people who are high in responsibility without really realizing that it's not an accurate thing to do and there are various problems associated with that regardless of those problems biometric technologies being developed and used at a rate that far outstrips the pace at which regulations are big created in many senses it feels as though we're sitting on a ticking time bomb we don't even have an affair field of ethics for technology there's voluntary codes by companies these are not legally enforceable you with a citizen or a consumer cannot use these to protect you in any way to derive no comfort from not so i think we're entering a really interesting space in terms of what it means to be human because as we become a more quantified world there's going to be the thought to temptation to take all

data about you and reduce you to zeroes and ones that is what is coming and whether or not you want that to happen and have to be something that's discussed we're all in the technology out and saying that this is going to change the way that we work and live within the next 51020 years to me that's really worrying we need to elevate ethics for technology right to the top of the agenda. my advice would be to know that no data is 100 percent secure. you should always be able to know who is taking your data how it's being used what right you have to correct or amend it if. i want to or not you can delete it and that goes for law enforcement or any government branch in your country but also any private company that you might interact with children using technology. who owns the technology and

the question and are they sharing it with anybody and i think generally being prudent keeping the additional footprint in a minimum and it's a good thing to do also as well technology's great so do use technology enjoy it it's amazing. but just be very. that it's your data and data. there is a huge group of people at work behind our screens and the power they have is massive that urge to keep swiping through your twitter feed that's just not the way we all click i agree to the terms and conditions that's just to most of us never even give it a 2nd thought and actually that's designed as well ali re-explore is how designers are manipulating our behavior in the final episode all hail the algorithm on the

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a. culture of down's thrives here every day generations of tibetans continue to brace and they'd take their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are or whether. this is a suburb of the capital new delhi tibet so be refugees here since 964 buttons here have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the 1951 un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient setting up ira businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. john bolton is out president 5 his national security adviser saying they disagreed

on many issues. so you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to before also ahead israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu draws international condemnation from pledging to annex parts of the occupied west bank celebrations of the holy day of a sure i turned deadly in iraq after a stampede killed at least 31 and a valuable cargo the 1st batch of election material arrives in afghanistan ahead of the presidential vote. one of the most powerful people in the white house is out of a job national security advisor john bolton insists he resigned but u.s. president donald trump says he was fired because of disagreements over foreign

policy alton was known as a hawk who wanted the u.s. to take a hard line stance against countries like iran venezuela and north korea alan fischer has more from washington if you're going to do a friend just your job and i appreciate you that there had been growing divisions between john bolton to his course but the end was brutal even by the standards of this white house donald trump tweet saying i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration therefore i asked for his resignation which was given to me this morning bolton tweeted not the usual thanks for being able to serve but an insistence he quit rather than being fired. that at a news briefing at the white house which bolton was initially listed to attend stephen secretary of state might prompt defended the president's decision the president's entitle to the staff that he wants that at any moment the staff person who works directly for the president states and he should have people they trust

and values if there were many times in basketball that i disagree that's to be sure but that's true for lots and lots of people who with whom i interact john bolton was donald trump started national security advisor the longest serving so far but with his stated positions of using military force in iran and north korea he was annoyed fit for a president whose isolationist america 1st policy wanted to reduce the u.s. military footprint reason only told him was against talking to north korea against pulling u.s. troops out of syria and against the president's latest idea of inviting afghanistan's taliban to peace talks at camp david that seems to have been the breaking point we have seen from this and from every other firing but what he really wants are people that echo what he already wants to do and with bolton's opposition gone there could be obvious changes for example that there's a better chance the president will meet with his a really encounter part presence made very clear is prepared to meet with no preconditions before he became president donald trump considered john bolton for

the role of secretary of state but ultimately decided against it because he felt he didn't look the part mainly because of his mr bush now after 18 months is the national security adviser john bolton once again finds that his face doesn't fit alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house bret braun served as director of the willing games meant in the white house during president obama's administration he says the u.s. president could use bolton's resignation to improve dialogue with iran. i would expect to see from the president an effort to open up a dialogue with iran using bolton's departure if you will as an excuse to say really bolton was the hawk i'm ready to talk and let's remember trump desperately needs this deal things did not work out with afghanistan things haven't worked out with north korea he's heading into elections and he needs to show something that

he's done on the world stage i fear that there is no one left in the situation room who is going to speak truth to trump might pompei you know as a sycophant someone who is really a yes man and this is what we have lost over the course of the last year in. defense secretary the former national security adviser general mcmaster going out and now with the loss of john bolton i'm no fan of john bolton but it least he was more disciplined and he would i think control some of trump's worst tendencies arab countries have condemned a campaign pledge by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to an expansion of the occupied west bank they say his plan would violate international law and now said the trump administration so-called dean of the century would provide a historic opportunity for extending israeli sovereignty over the west bank and other areas hi fossett has more from western a slam. benjamin netanyahu has a habit of promising dramatic announcements in the run up to elections and he did

so again on tuesday when it came it was not a unilateral decision about amec sation as some had predicted instead the message to right wing settler voters was a vote for netanyahu would in concert with the trumpet ministration mean extending israeli sovereignty to all illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and in the shorter term the annexation of the jordan valley yes. there is one place where it's possible to apply israeli sovereignty immediately after the election if i receive a clear mandate to do so from you the citizens of israel in recent months of little diplomatic effort in this direction in recent days the conditions for this have ripened today i'm announcing my intention to apply with the formation of the next government israeli sovereignty on the jordan valley and nor going to see the jordan valley represent some 30 percent of the occupied west bank and some of its most fertile agricultural land israeli policy has long been that it needs to retain control there for national security but the prospect of

a unilateral israeli annexation as netanyahu is promising would explode any faint remaining hopes of a viable palestinian state alongside israel giving palestinians and there's a small towns and villages as prisoners without any freedom that is a war crime and as about as we are about to enter the 74th session or the general assembly of the united nations that the national community must stand now or to say a big no and to stop treating it as a country about the laws of man at the united nations there was further condemnation such a prospect would be devastating to the potential of reviving negotiations regional peace and the very essence of a.