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we have one major story this our, and that is the wave of protests taking place right across the united states. these are live pictures of protesters out on the street in atla nta, protesters out on the street in atlanta, these images are mirrored from los angeles, chicago, boston, washington, dc and new york. these are all protests over the death of george floyd, an unarmed black man who was being restrained by a police officer when he died, thus police officer when he died, thus police officer was derek chauvin. —— that police officer was derek chauvin. there were calls for him to be arrested and charged that he was on friday, with third—degree murder and manslaughter. that has not stopped the protests, they are out on the streets right across the united states. people in scotland have been allowed
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to meet friends and family in small groups outdoors, for the first time since lockdown measures were introduced, in late march. sarah smith reports. the first eager steps out of hard lockdown, as six—week—old penny meets her widerfamily for the first time. you look a wee bit different in real life. it's unnatural, carefully keeping two metres apart. you just want to reach across... oh, yeah. in scotland, two different households can meet, with a limit of eight people at a time. they're not to share food, cutlery or crockery and not to go indoors. you're desperate to show her off to people, your family. it has been tough. and i don't want to get too personal, but did you go to the loo before you came? idid. that was the last thing i said before we stepped out. only if people stick to the rules will this new freedom persist. if people don't abide by it, we're going to go backwards, which would be heartbreaking for us. the right to sunbathe, barbecue and picnic has been welcome to bbc news, delivered on the hottest i‘m lewis vaughan jones. day of the year. our top stories:
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the police don't have new legal powers to enforce the new rules. tear gas and troops: it all relies on public cooperation. it's scenes like this that led live in the us city nicola sturgeon to say she is a bit nervous about relaxing of minneapolis as a curfew begins. the rules in scotland. protests continue over the killing of george floyd — a police officer sacked things shouldn't feel as though over his death has been we are completely back to normal, charged with murder. she says, because we anger across america: are not back to normal. if you are in doubt this is the scene in boston about whether your plans where hundreds of activists and police have clashed are within the rules or not, at protests over the err for now on the side of caution. because however harsh these rules might seem right now — and i know that they do — death of george floyd. abiding by them will never, ever be as harsh as grieving the loss of a loved one. and live pictures of clashes in atlanta continue where people in scotland can hundreds of activists and police have finally play some sports — held running confronations as long as they're outdoors. of the main roads of the city. while we wait three weeks before president trump offers his the government reviews sympathy to the family whether they can relax the rules even further. sarah smith, bbc news, glasgow. now it's time for click. this week, who is tracking your
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teams‘ computers? how taiwan is tackling covid with tac. and finding culley —— cuddly koalas with drones. hello, you. hope you‘re doing 0k. the weather is getting warmer here which means only one thing— any minute now you will hear my next—door neighbour‘s longmire whizzing past and there is nothing anyone can do about it. there is an app for that, don‘t you watch a programme called click? 0h app for that, don‘t you watch a programme called click? oh yes, i remember. we were actually all meant to be outside this week at the a festival but alas it is not happening this year. —— hay
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festival. i will miss it this year, they are still online though and they are still online though and they are still online though and they are giving loads of speakers giving talks from their homes, much like the rest of us these days. how are you finding working from home? well, i am really lucky to be able to work from home, but the weird thing is, whenever i have worked at home in the past i have worked harder and longer than i have in the office, basically because i am paranoid people think i am skiving off. i can understand that although not everybody is that conscientious. speaking to a lot of friends i think the idea that moving forward many of us the idea that moving forward many of us could be working from home more, even after the pandemic, but while oui’ even after the pandemic, but while our bosses can‘t watch just the way they would in the office there is some technology that might. with millions of us now working from home, managers are facing new challenges. homeworkers are harder to monitor and so trust is vital. however in recent weeks, demand for softwa re
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however in recent weeks, demand for software to monitor employees has surged in the us, so it seems not eve ryo ne surged in the us, so it seems not everyone is quite so trusting. while companies may argue it is simply about maintaining productivity, others may feel that they are slipping into a time of creepy surveillance. so based on these concerns, new york times journalist adam decided to conduct an unusual experiment. i wanted to see how this employee monitoring software works, and soi employee monitoring software works, and so i thought the best way to do that would be to turn it on myself soi that would be to turn it on myself so i downloaded the software on my computer, on my phone, and then i turned around and gave my manager, my editor in san francisco access as well, just knowing that your supervisor was looking at you over my shoulder and could see screenshots of what was on my computer screen, or a log of what websites i was visiting, that sort of change how you behaved and how
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you perform your george —— job. adam used monitoring software hubstaff. the software is now installed on over 100,000 company machines. it can snap screenshots of your computer every few minutes. 0ther softwa re computer every few minutes. 0ther software on the market can even record your screen, software on the market can even record your screen, and monitor every keystroke. i really did begin to feel that it was intrusive, and over the top. it spits out this percentage which comes kind of your productivity score, which can be used to measure you. and so mine we re used to measure you. and so mine were always stubbornly low, which was surprising, i consider myself to bea was surprising, i consider myself to be a fairly productive person. was surprising, i consider myself to be a fairly productive personlj was surprising, i consider myself to be a fairly productive person. i am embarrassed to say i looked at that numberandi embarrassed to say i looked at that numberand i was embarrassed to say i looked at that number and i was like, what? what is going on? it raises immediate questions, like what is this guy doing? sol questions, like what is this guy doing? so i should have known better, because when he explained that this really only measures the amount of time you are, you know,
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typing on your device and using your device and your laptop, that explained a lot. but knowing what else he was doing felt really weird and intrusive. and it was kind of gross. it is like, you are not only violating adam's privacy, you are sort of violating other people's privacy that he was communicating with by extension. adam's experiment was one manager monitoring one employee, and the companies providing the software argue that this isn‘t a true reflection of how their customers use it. that is not their customers use it. that is not the reality of what really happens. what really happens is i have 100 employees, and there is nobody who is going around looking at the detail of 100 employees. so really what they are looking for is just those basic insights that we talked about. and the detail is just there if it is needed, if something looks off, looks awry. however in the united states, the sudden surge in
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demand has started to draw attention to the lack of legal protection for workers‘ privity. and also, highlighted a power imbalance between employers and employees. —— privacy. elemental action is necessary to protect workers from being forced to treat their dignity in the employment bargain. in february i did testify in congress in the subcommittee on labour and education, and this was an issue that was raised. this productivity tracking of employees, and also the fate of the data that is collected. with millions more of us now working from home, the doctor‘s concerns have become even more pressing. she told us that currently employers are currently allowed to secretly monitor employees as no federal law
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exists that would require them to inform their workers about surveillance. it is now a free for all. it is the wild west. everybody is now subject to the same kind of minute monitoring as we previously thought was, you know, the plight of those poor factory or warehouse workers. and there is also the issue of employment discrimination that can arise from all this data collection. if you are taking screenshots, you might discover information about the employee that you perhaps would not have discovered in a traditional workplace. you might discover that the employee is of a different sexual orientation, so that could also give rise to discrimination on those grounds, or different religion. but in europe, where productivity monitoring of employees is still legal, there is much tighter oversight, and there are regulations around its use. in europe we have to tell people what
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we are doing and why, and ensure that we have lawful grounds for doing that. if an organisation has a legitimate interest in collecting the data for workforce productivity in certain areas, they will be able to do so without consent, but it will still need to be transparent with its employees, telling them what it is doing and of course putting safeguards to protect the data. maybe we will see this sort of employee surveillance become the norm, but clearly it will stir quite some debate. after all, how would you feel if your boss was monitoring you? hello and welcome to the week tech. it was the week that for the first time, twitter restricted access to one of resident from‘s tweets, saying it glorifies violence. it is the latest move in an escalating row between the president of the social media company over censorship and freedom of speech. a canadian court
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ruled that the case of senior huawei executive who is fighting expedition to the us, can go ahead. and if 10,000 songs was not enough for your lockdown listening libraries, music streaming service spotify has now remove that limit. you can now save an unlimited number of tracks and dance like nobody‘s watching. if you are getting square eyes in lockdown, how about upgrading to a holographic eight k display? the display developed by looking glass has a massive 33.2 million pixels and is designed to give the appearance of 3d without needing glasses. when you next find yourself out at sea, would you trust an algorithm to help you if you went overboard? researchers developed the algorithm to help speed up search and rescue operations, by more accurately predicting where a floating person would drift. and finally while struggling —— some of us have been
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struggling —— some of us have been struggling to fill our free time inside, one developer got a robot companion to keep him company. the engineer used a raspberry pie powered by google assistant. it can show emotions but cannot currently follow you around the house. now as lockdown deciding to ease we are also beginning to see the economic consequences. and questions are being asked as to whether covid—19 could have been handled differently. 0ne could have been handled differently. one part of the world that managed to keep things business as usual, more or less, is taiwan. with direct flights to wuhan and densely packed cities, the strategy promised to be a disaster. but no—by the 20th of may taiwan had had just seven covid—19 deaths. so where did all go
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so covid—19 deaths. so where did all go so right? back in 2003 taiwan faced another epidemic which also originated on the chinese mainland. sars. this time around, the government immediately began testing and tracing specific parts of the population using for example travel data to see who had just returned from wuhan together with health data pointing to those with recent health problems. those who were quarantined we re problems. those who were quarantined were monitored using location data from their mobile phones. the virus was stopped in its tracks before it had a chance to take hold in the community. but how did this democratic island persuade the people to allow such use of its data? well, people to allow such use of its data ? well, last people to allow such use of its data? well, last year we met taiwan‘s digital minister audrey tang who was part of the 2014 su nflower tang who was part of the 2014 sunflower revolution in which citizens stormed the parliament buildings demanding to be listened
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to. among the protesters, civic hackers like these who worked together using open data to solve issues in the public interest. they have since come up with transparent ways of giving ordinary people a bigger say in making decisions. after that occupation at the end of 2014, the entire cabinet started to learn the art of listening and skill. and today listening continues. so when a citizen reposted a warning from whistleblower doctor li weniang at the start of december, people began to ta ke the start of december, people began to take note. we set up the centre even before we had the first confirmed case. along with strong messaging about hand washing and social distancing, taiwan was keen to emphasise the benefits of wearing masks. in taiwan people care about each other. we build masks as
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something that a remind you to wash your hand properly and be, protects your hand properly and be, protects you from touching your mouth. and thatis you from touching your mouth. and that is the main benefit of masks to the person who wears it. of course we know once a majority of people in the same place to start wearing medical masks, they start protecting each other. pressure only takes effect if a majority of people in a room where a mask. mask production was ramped up from 2 million to 20 million a day, and to combat panic buying, they were rationed. then the hacking community stepped in with a series of real—time mask maps to show the nearest points to you where there was still available. as maps became more popular, more volunteers came on board, and features like voice activation for the visually impaired were added. we trust the people a lot, sometimes the people
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trust back. and the people who trust back birth get there innovations, amplified by the government into essentially civil engineering infrastructure. so that more than 10 million people use it in a participatory way to keep each other accountable. and hereproduct of this high level of trust between people and government. when rumours started to circulate online that toilet rolls we re circulate online that toilet rolls were made of the same kind of paper as masks, toilet rolls and started to run out. in response, taiwan‘s premier was enlisted to quash this misinformation with a meme. he shows his bottom wiggling a little bit and says that we only have one pair of buttocks each. and then a table that says the masks are produced using domestic material and tissue paper
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is produced using south american material and these two do not overla p. material and these two do not overlap. and this would absolutely viral. we make sure that these ideas travel faster than conspiracy theories, than rumours, by using cute memes so that the press conferences get translated by the spokes dog that explains sanitation rules, social distancing, mask use and things like that and in many languages. so this is literally our spokes dog and often go very viral. can you understand why not all governments think like you and, therefore, why populations don‘t trust their government ‘s? therefore, why populations don‘t trust their government 's? back when we encountered sars we had to barricade an entire hospital unannounced. there was no fixed time limitand unannounced. there was no fixed time limit and that was barely constitutional. there was a severe
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trust crisis. and so we know how it was late because it was very chaotic stop it‘s just that the entire society gets inoculated by that it variance. the important thing is that as a society we need to start deliberating about, for example, data use. the robust civil society ta kes data use. the robust civil society takes control of most of the data applications or do you want a surveillance state would you want the multinational companies to play that role and that decision must be made by the entire society by the time that a next wave comes or a next mutation comes that will determine how your society responds to it. that was audrey tang talking to it. that was audrey tang talking to me earlierfrom taiwan. to it. that was audrey tang talking to me earlier from taiwan. and now we go even further across the world. yes, see, a little while ago nick webb decided he had had enough of the uk and he moved to australia to explore the country. three weeks after he arrived he went into lockdown and hasn‘t left his apartment since. hi, nick. 0h
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lockdown and hasn‘t left his apartment since. hi, nick. oh no. how‘s it going? apartment since. hi, nick. oh no. how's it going? hello! great as see you guys. it feels amazing. if fellow government is to grasp what australia is really like from the inside of this four white walls. i'm so inside of this four white walls. i'm so glad i'm from the other side of the world through now remain insightful top lockdown is easing there, isn't it? are you hoping to start your touring soon? that's right. 0n start your touring soon? that's right. on monday the pubs are going to be open, so i will be queueing immediately after this. 0h, to be open, so i will be queueing immediately after this. oh, i bet you will be! before going into lockdown you did actually go to film some pieces for us, didn‘t you? that's right. they looked across the australian technological landscape andl australian technological landscape and i thought what better way to that than go and cuddle some koalas or kangaroos? i wasjetlagged that than go and cuddle some koalas or kangaroos? i was jetlagged anyway so or kangaroos? i was jetlagged anyway soi or kangaroos? i was jetlagged anyway so i thought i would popout during the night. in the dead of the night something is afoot. two feet, in
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fa ct, something is afoot. two feet, in fact, and a jumper. westpac little group group and myself are sleep to track down roving kangaroos or the occasional wandering walla by. when not fussy. table, check, carpet, jet, two unmanned aerial vehicles, check, check. i‘m out with the same tea m check, check. i‘m out with the same team behind the drones i‘ve covered before. with the bushfires and the animals that have been affected we are now taking the amazing technology we have out on the beaches for the last three years and we have put it over the bushland. now they have turned nocturnal and then you targets are considerably cuddly creatures. you can see kangaroo, kangaroo, kangaroo. they really sta nd kangaroo, kangaroo, kangaroo. they really stand out against the background. we are filming before sunrise during the coldest part of the day. so the new thermal cameras fixed to the drones can work properly. as well as being able to serve a huge swathe of land in the
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blink ofan serve a huge swathe of land in the blink of an eye, the drone‘s thermal capabilities can help in other ways. a thermal signature makes animals much easier to see at night. their natural internal temperatures making them visible even in the most dense of treetop canopies and the different individual temperatures of the animals can be recorded therefore making them more distinct between species. different animals show up at different temperatures we re show up at different temperatures were different further and enslave them. so isjust a matter of picking them. so isjust a matter of picking them out so you can see there is a whole bunch of different kangaroos in this field. we fly over an area and there is a kangaroo that seems removing a little bit differently, not as efficiently as it normally would. not normal movement patterns, then we will focus on that. and if we bring the drone a little closer and they don't move and they don't scare or a and they don't move and they don't scare ora human and they don't move and they don't scare or a human gets closer to them and they don't move or don't scare then we know that something is
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probably wrong with its health and we will focus on identifying that in passing that on to rescuers. doctor grant hamilton from queensland university of technology is also using drones to monitor koalas. he‘s devised an algorithm to automatically detect animals in the outback using computer vision. on the right—hand side we have the artificial intelligence algorithm working and on the left—hand side we have the thermal imagery. it‘s a koala. initially it was falsely detecting kangaroos, for example, as koalas. we were even detecting humans and even hot car bonnets. but that‘s the whole point that you go back and you retrain the algorithm. so the algorithm gets better and better and better, to the point now we are better than humans are at detecting koalas. all of the algorithms that have been developed
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to date is processing back at a university, so there is no infield processing. so we're now going to work with and institutions to take the datasets and algorithms they have started to develop, lariat over our technology, which enables us to do these surveys at night in the field and get real—time data back. and that's the key. someone who knows a thing or two about the state of australian animals is doctor michael payne. when i first started here 20 years ago we admitted just three koalas in the whole year and last year we admitted almost 600 koalas. he sees real value in an up—to—date digital sensors. koalas. he sees real value in an up-to-date digital sensors. these surveys a re up-to-date digital sensors. these surveys are done intermittently, maybe every ten years, and in many areas that are not done at all, is just estimates. technology such as drones, using those thermal cameras, can mean a large area can be covered in short periods of time, you know, relatively cheaply to get those numbers so we know how many koalas
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are there and that makes all the difference. 0nly are there and that makes all the difference. only if we know what‘s there can we manage what‘s there and be able to make, you know, decisions about the future. as well as the fires and the underlying issue of drought, chlamydia is a huge problem putting koalas under threat. so staff at ka rumba putting koalas under threat. so staff at karumba and have been using tech of their own to help diagnose the disease. we can take a swab, we can use this little unit here called the genie three and it will detect whether there is chlamydia or not from that swab within 25 minutes. so it‘s amazing technology that we can actually take out into the field, which makes all the difference to us to start treatment appropriately and, at the end of the treatment, decide whether we have been successful with the treatment or not. a lot of work remains to be done and, in fact, it's the very beginning of the important work to find out what's left. the other thing to consider, though, is that this isjust one bushfire season.
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and australia has bushfires regularly. so unless we get a good count now we're not going to be able to get any idea of what next time. that was nick who, as we speak, is setting up a tent on the pavement outside his local pub ready for the grand opening. and that‘s it from us for this week will stop you can keep up for this week will stop you can keep up with the team throughout the week on instagram, youtube, facebook, and twitter at bbc click. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. bye— bye. well, friday was a very warm day across the uk. in fact, the hot spot was scotland. temperatures got up to 28 degrees.
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and saturday, in most parts of the uk, will be every bit as warm, at least the low to mid 20s in most major towns and cities. it‘s been so reliable during the lockdown that the spring has ended up being the sunniest one on record. so, this has been confirmed by the met office. now, high pressure is in charge of the weather across a large chunk of europe. it‘s centred across scandinavia and it‘s clearing the skies across the uk, ireland, much of western and central europe. these are the 6am temperatures. a little fresh in parts of east anglia. maybe in the rural spots, temperatures could be around 6 degrees, but elsewhere, not quite as nippy. very quickly, the temperatures will rocket during the course of the morning and into the afternoon. let‘s take a closer look. so, on friday, we had temperatures up to around about 28 in some parts of western scotland. probably not quite so hot on saturday, more like the low to mid 20s. very warm there in glasgow at 24 celsius. we‘ll match that in liverpool, in birmingham, and probably the hot spot will be somewhere in the south of england. temperatures will get up to around 25 celsius. now, the sun will be very strong as well. you can see high uv levels pretty much right across the country, so take note if you‘re planning to enjoy that fine weather outdoors. saturday night‘s looking absolutely fine, and then sunday,
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we do it all over again. the winds are light, the skies are clear, the temperatures are going to rise. in fact, in one or two spots, it could reach around 26 or 27 celsius, so a hot day on the way, especially across western parts of england, on sunday. and over the next few days — so this is including the weekend and into next week — that warm plume of air from the southern climes continues to spread across the uk, as far north as scandinavia, even pushing to the arctic circle. so those temperatures are expected to affect peak across the south of the uk come tuesday. we could see temperatures getting up to around 28 degrees celsius. but after that, a big change on the way. look at that — back into the teens by the time we get to the weekend. in fact, next weekend, we‘re expecting colder air coming in from the north. that‘s it for me. 00:27:40,045 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 goodbye.
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