• 
• 5 min
• The Guardian
• 2019

Biometrics technology will be implemented as a means of gaining access to a residential building in Brooklyn, causing pushback among the tenants who prefer to keep their data private, especially considering the lack of legal regulation surrounding the technology. Specifically, there is growing fear that the facial recognition database could be sold to or abused by law enforcement.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Biometrics

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• 5 min
• The Atlantic
• 2019

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announces that hackers have stolen license-plate images and traveler’s ID photos from a subcontractor, which provides deeper insight to the dangers of big data held by government.

• Cyber Crime
• Data Privacy
• Biometrics

• 
• 9 min
• Kinolab
• 2017

In a short vignette told by a museum curator, a doctor known as Dawson devises a brain-computer interface device which can allow him to feel the physical sensations of patients in order to deliver a quicker diagnosis. However, his ownership of this technology ends up bizarrely shaping his psychology, putting himself and others in danger.

• Edited Humans
• Scientific Innovation
• Biometrics
• Brain-Computer Interfaces

• 
• 7 min
• Wired
• 2020

After student members of the University of Miami Employee Student Alliance held a protest on campus, the University of Miami Police Department likely used facial recognition technology in conjunction with video surveillance cameras to track down nine students from the protest and summon them to a meeting with the dean. This incident provided a gateway into the discussion of fairness of facial recognition programs, and how students believe that they should not be deployed on college campuses.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Computer Vision
• Biometrics

• 
• 12 min
• Kinolab
• 1982

In dystopian 2019 Los Angeles, humanoid robots known as “replicants” are on the loose, and must be tracked down and killed by bounty hunters. The normal role for replicants is to serve as laborers in space colonies; they previously were not meant to incorporate into human society. The first two clips demonstrate the Voigt-Kampff test, this universe’s Turing Test to determine if someone is a replicant or a human. While the android Leon is discovered and retaliates quickly, Rachel, a more advanced model of android, is able to hide her status as an android for longer because she herself believes she is human due to implanted memories. When this secret is revealed to Rachel, she becomes quite upset.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Singularity
• Biometrics
• Robots

• 
• 4 min
• Kinolab
• 1982

While attempting to track down humanoid robots, or “replicants”, that he must kill, Officer Rick Deckard goes to Chinatown to analyze his singular piece of evidence; a snake scale. The scale is revealed to be from an android snake crafted within Chinatown.

• Deep Fake
• Computer Vision
• Biometrics