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Dec 10, 2019
Human faces evolved to be highly distinctive; it’s helpful to be able to recognize individual members of one’s social group and quickly identify strangers, and that hasn’t changed for hundreds of thousands of years. Then in just the past five years, the meaning of the human face has quietly but seismically shifted. That’s because researchers at Facebook, Google, and other institutions have nearly perfected techniques for automated facial recognition.
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Quick answers about this season's release timeline and episode lineup.
Vox Open Sourced Season 1 premiered on December 10, 2019.
Vox Open Sourced Season 1 has 12 episodes.
The season opens with Season 1 Episode 1, "What facial recognition steals from us". It aired on December 10, 2019.
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