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Faye Harrison and Rosalie Hayes talk about deepfakes and facial recognition technology and discuss how they can hurt both privacy rights and even our trust into the media, law enforcement, and politics.

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Faye Harrison and Rosalie Hayes talk about deepfakes and facial recognition technology and discuss how they can hurt both privacy rights and even our trust into the media, law enforcement, and politics.

Tune in to listen to our data protection experts debate on the potential solutions to balance freedom of expression and enforcement against fake content; dos and don'ts of using facial recognition, and what are the rules to follow.

Read our Data Protection Top 10 publication.

Originally published 05.11.2020

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