A Seattle company called RealNetworks is giving schools free facial recognition software to help them detect unknown people who might enter. Important safety precaution, or creepy surveillance? Founder Rob Glaser and Rachel Levy, senior counsel to the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program, discussed the pros and cons.
Facebook is wading into the data sharing business again - this time for the purposes of good, or so we hope. Social Science One is an organization created to facilitate access to Facebook's data for academic researchers. Karen Weise has written about the program for Bloomberg and joined Ross Reynolds in studio to explain.
What are you reading this summer for pleasure (guilty or otherwise)? We spoke to authors Zoe Fisher, lecturer and librarian at Pierce College, as well as Tom Nissley, owner of Phinney Books.