# What you need to know about face surveillance

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxCambridgeSalon
- Speaker: Kade Crockford
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Law
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kade_crockford_what_you_need_to_know_about_face_surveillance)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Privacy isn't dead, but face surveillance technology might kill it, says civil rights advocate Kade Crockford. In an eye-opening talk, Kade outlines the startling reasons why this invasive technology -- powered by often-flawed facial recognition databases that track people without their knowledge -- poses unprecedented threats to your fundamental rights. Learn what can be done to ban government use before it's too late.

## Lectures

1. [What you need to know about face surveillance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kade_crockford_what_you_need_to_know_about_face_surveillance/4106353bfd84), 13 min (TED's player)
