It's been in the news because the police want to introduce it. There are all sorts of citizens' rights issues around what is facial recognition of as well as it were so facial recognition we've had to cameras for a long time you know C.C.T.V. But the cameras have been dumb in that they've needed human beings that go into making the use of the recordings or life fades with facial recognition technology that means that a computer effectively watching the feed from these cameras can work out who it's looking at and sometimes what they're doing as well that sort of goes beyond facial recognition but that can be done as well and it does that by trying to match the patterns that it sees in people's faces to a database of faces that it's already compiled so he tries to match against those and obviously that raises a number of. Concerns for society about whether we should be walking around the streets being recognized by computers and and matched against databases you know this seems to be being done without any real public discussion or public understanding of what the ramifications of that could be welcome think of the ramifications certainly if you are to time your partner but if you've got nothing to hide you know what I mean if you've got nothing to hide if you're. Yeah if you're true to your commitments this is it we're in relationships and among other things then what you've got to work I think that's that's less of a problem unless anyone from selling the information to a partner but look the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee should group of M.P.'s actually sat and looked at this issue and looked at it last year as well said that there should be no more trials of this technology until the relevant regulations were in place so what's happened is technology has made something possible for the 1st time and there's no framework within which it. Be regulated to stop these very powerful technologies being abused on purpose or inadvertently for example and it gives an example where they warned that police forces were failing to edit the database of custody images so when someone gets arrested the images taken is loaded into the database now when someone becomes unconvicted you know either because the not guilty or no charges are brought their image is meant to be removed from that they took place that's not being done in the way that it is the not the issue of D.N.A. Is that that's the main complaint about D.N.A. When you're arrested the police can take it lawfully take some D.N.A. Samples off you from your hair or your saliva or whatever it might be right and then if it's still on the days of various when you have been convicted you've been released here as an issue but Akon you force that 3 same thing when you talk about the facial recognition cameras we already have C.C.T.V. Cameras and arguably arguably when the police use C.C.T.V. Cameras to try and detect a crime and your face is on there they should delete the footage afterwards they can keep their records in any case what they use an inappropriate time to sort of say oh well yeah that was all being kept they're being kept in a way that they shouldn't be and so what effect can that have so an innocent person whose face is on the database keeps getting matched as they go about their lawful business and potentially keeps getting harassed Also it depends a bit technical but it depends on how the AI system is trained it's trained by giving images and if those images are not balanced in the right way then the AI system may become more more men than women or more black people white people you know it's possible for our own biases to be programmed into these machines and then be carried out with with machine efficiency as it were so you invented that then so you continue complain isn't it with us where they are generally in all sorts of respects. Even when it comes to. Doing it. Would you record it the over the would you call it when they toss out all the sorts of you know when you go to your bank would it give you a loan or not then it goes through this procedure now when I call or visit you generally then yeah I know you're going to sell all your aggregates or whatever it might there's a bill like you mean like you do it does your credit history and works out whether your credit worthy Yeah it does it through an algorithm algorithms OK algorithm it's still a relatively new word for us old timers we're 5 minutes in and we've got the word algorithm Oh yeah it's going to go well tonight of course is going to go well oh $808590.69 you've got a question of any techie nature for a then D. Gives a call and I know you've got some other things you want to talk about them over on to as well she talk about some issues that you might have seen this is got sent to your website as well one of our listeners once she to recommend any reputable places to register a domain name I see there are quite a few. This is from Richard and he has good he's quite right there's a lot of people who sell domain names and some of them cheaper than others but they all work out about the same at the end of the Day Well yes so there are differences and yeah I did see this I saw this on my Twitter feed earlier earlier this even this question it's a good question and I'll take a moment afterwards perhaps just explain why it was interested in buying a domain name but but in terms of choosing A demain name So 1st explain what the main name is that's something dot com or something dot co dot U.K. So you might have gotten out a bio dot com You can buy that or at least you can rent it for multiples of one or more years and that means that you can have a website that also had to buy dot com Or you could have an email address based upon that to buying one. So that's why you might want one you buy a year it's a time typically when you buy it the 1st year tends to be cheap that give it to for like a pound or something and then they'll charge you depending on which variant it is and how unusual it is you pay about you know $1010.00 pounds or more per year thereafter so there's Think few things to consider one is the initial cost $1.00 is young Another is the ongoing cost. But you also have to look at for example do they include in that price the ability to have you know a basic email based around that the main name or do you have to buy an email inbox separately because that can double or more the price the other thing I think increasingly we need to think about is if you want using it to run an email address where is that information stored are you dealing with a British company which thought stores in Britain by the way or British companies do store data in Britain or is the data your email dates and other data being stored outside the U.K. And in particular outside the E.U. If it's stored outside the E.U. Then then that data could be accessed in ways that might not be legal in this country but are legal say in the United States or some people who want email accounts on not. Activated and actioned outside the European Union so that the another thing to consider I mean there are various companies Go Daddy is a is a large American company they do a lot of business some people hate them are I've used them they get the job done there's another company in the U.K. Called 123 read their fine one and one is also OK I mean there are there are lots of them but I also suggest you know shopping around for deals each year or year or 2 when you come to be near it because sometimes there are deals to be had elsewhere . This is for MATURE he says firstly with Microsoft ending update some patches for Windows 7 on the. Yes or generally 2020 is it safe to use Windows 7 after the state or should I say to Windows 10 Manton Oh yeah so it's a good question it will become unsafe after the date when they stop patching and the reason for that and this is what happened with Windows X.P. People were using Windows X.P. 13 years after it was launched and Microsoft had to you know leave them off expe with a crowbar by stopping the support for it and now after many years Windows 7 is going the same way and people stick to it because it's a good operating system they like it and a lot people still love with Windows 10 I personally see Windows 10 as little more than a piece of spyware Unfortunately it's an excellent operating system but it's been designed in a way that is really designed to glean as much information about you and your usage online as possible in the way that Google might have done and it's a shame to see Microsoft going going down that same path it becomes Windows 7 becomes unsafe because as vulnerabilities in the software detected after that date that's to say bugs in the software that allow people to take advantage of those bugs in order to hurt your computer take control steal your data steal your money those those bugs will not be fixed and as they as your operating system has more vulnerabilities in it which are not fixed that means that it's a dangerous thing to do so no you can't really use Windows 7 safely after after that date unfortunately unless Mark so you know give it a stay of execution support it for a bit longer but once the support is ended that's it after that you've got a difficult choice do you go to Windows 10 if you want to stay within you know Windows then you don't have much choice but Windows 10 as I say is by default set up to gather as much information about you as you as you can and if you've got the ability. In an hour or so you can change all the settings to to the limit but not eradicate the amount of data it takes from you but sometimes you change things in months of changes them back again which is. Despicable in my view so that's something to consider other people will go back at this point some people will be the thing that pushes them into into the sort of the mac O.S. Operating system and down that route others will go toward something called limits which is an open source operating system which is really. Brilliant operating system but doesn't have the same support or something like Windows the same range of apps the same ease of use and so forth so you know we're all going to have a difficult decision when when works or pulls the support why don't they understand that a lot of us are conservative in our use of technology that you know well well once you sort of accustomed to using a certain interface for example you don't want to see change you don't want to see the color change you don't want to see anything about it change because you haven't got time to go read and learn about you have been the only actually uses it cetera why don't they just leave things the way he says it because of money but it is because Microsoft's business model was based upon selling Windows operating system it would sell it to manufacturers and it would sell it to individuals as updates now you can't sell someone a new operating system if it's not different because by definition it's not new and you know they try to improve the product and with those improvements come again by definition you know changes but the difficulty of Microsoft is it sort of woke up in a world where it was very different because you know if you think about Apple computers Well you know the operating system comes with it you pay for it separately and they got to charge you for updates if you think about you know i Pads and i Phones and i Wes is free. If you think about Android smartphones and tablets and Android is free will that you pay for it with the data but in terms of money it's free so suddenly Microsoft became the only $1.00 that was making had to make its money by charging for the operating system and that's not really going to fly anymore people are unwilling to pay for these things with cash and the effect is Windows 10 you get an operating system where. Banks or tries to make money out of learning as much about you as you can spying on us the term I would use and then monetizing that information just the way that Google to it and Facebook do it so Mike so friggin is would poke fun and criticize Google for the White did its business and now is having to do the same thing. Well same other feature hoser that would be very interesting is you know the battle of the tech companies continues a pace to see which ones have got the right model to see them through into the future yeah yes indeed OK this is well is from one of our listeners he has emailed to say amongst other things called long the marriage really. That. This is. Cause a loss in the yeah it's about the lunar landings well qualified more about that online you know NASA website is a good places to go Yeah yeah I mean there's a lot I mean you've got to be careful what you read about little landings before you start getting people telling you didn't happen. Which is kind of bizarre in itself but the NASA website is you know that was some great resources there some going to right resources they still to astounding educational work and help inspire people and you know these are the sort of things that just inspire whole new generations of of children and young adults to to to go down that path and you know explore the universe and you know that they're going to be all saviors in the end to the species who are going to have to get off this planet at some point OK this other similar kind of question Arraf says. Look. Can you see stream Netflix from an Amazon or Fire H.D. Tablet from your phone's internet I'm looking to get tablet just mainly for Netflix and I want to spend that much Yeah OK it's a good question so the reason why of his asking the question about the you know the Amazon Fire tablet is because those tablets are very cheap and that is partly because they're subsidized somewhat by Amazon because Amazon want you to have an Amazon. Fire tablet because then you can consume their e-books and their various services so all their services are available over you know over the into office in from tablets and therefore it's then courage and each have a mechanism to consume and buy more of their services so the tablets are good value for money but they don't run as you know a common operating system they run a variant of Android but no Android itself so you can't use the Google Play store so you get far fewer apps but one of the apps that you can get is Netflix. So I think what I refer is trying to do is use. One of these devices which won't have a SIM card in it so you have to use your own wife I say is wanting to create a wife I hotspot. With his mobile phone which most mobile phones are capable of some some companies that provide you with you know service are not keen on you doing it but but increasingly that allow it so your phone turns into a wife or hotspot the Amazon tablet looks up to the wife on the app runs and you you have your Netflix so yes it will work also works very well on you know another thing that you could look at if you don't need to be mobile with it is the Amazon Fire T.V. Which is a little streaming box or stick that you get em plug in to specify on your television set and that's with that's a really nice way to watch Netflix because then it's on a full size T.V. Not just one small tablet so if you don't actually need the mobile aspect of it then the 5 T.V. Is really cheap they were on when they had Amazon Prime day the other day they had to fork a steak for $25.00 pounds in the standard one for 20 you pay a bit more than that now but still you know cheaper than a tablet so if you don't actually need a tablet to do that than the than the stick is a better way to go. You know Maria says frenzy my computer today kept giving me some message about sticky keys and no matter what I do it keeps coming up Also when I click a file on desktop it's highlighting several files to open this isn't happening over time it's never done this before please oh yeah so the sticky keys is what's called an accessibility option so it's designed for people the accessibility options are designed for people with various sorts of disabilities and it's designed to make computers easier to use and what's happened to Maria is I think she's in the 1st of the put a particular computer into a sticky mode is to say a mode where it would be easier for other people to use with the with the disability and I think it can and will depends on the computer but normally it's one key has been hit 3 times in rapid succession and you can undo it by heating the same key so I can look up later on which which particular key is does it doesn't really say she's using Windows computer I wonder that myself I say she doesn't say we will look it up later but essentially she's hit one key 3 times in succession back to them it's put into that mode and that's why it's behaving in the way that she describes and it can be simply beyond them it's all about your questions for gadget detective so feel free to either text as a 95 or 58 or e-mail up for night at B.B.C. Don't go to E.J. Or speech him directly as he took up his reverse now 188599693 I'll say I get to study 885909693 I was sure dialing him up allowed me to ask one question and this is been driving me absolutely bananas I think come on the top of it but I know there are fools I was on top of it before and then I got sucked back into a. This flipping website is flipping search engine you might know which one I'm talking about to tell me. Being. Iggy Microsoft's Bing Bing keeps cropping up I mean I'm trying to use one search engine and then I get it gets hijacked so if I try and search something suddenly it reverts to this other search engine I haven't asked for I haven't downloaded maybe an adverse and there have but I certainly don't and I've tried so many Believe me I've looked to know the forums about how to get rid of the one who's who then worked for a few months and then it came back and then I can't use that style in what I do get rid of it forever so using Windows Yes you know that I'm a mac baby all right and still it's coming up still it's coming up OK So Bing is a Microsoft product of course. Is we don't on the it will be in your search engine or using Safari Yes Yeah so they'll be there will be a setting in there which says what is my default search engine I've gone through all of that by Gov and his 2 kids open up I go through the default search engine and you changed it and is it changing it back again or no that doesn't change it stays on the same ones and it'll come in and when you do a search so what happens if you just go to the Google website and type in there presumably you'll get your Google search at that point you know funny enough it's initially when I just open up Google then that comes up because I'll do that from the the bar at the bottom you know I'll just press kit and that comes out but then if I keep seeing something that I want to go to it suddenly just diverts to it is being business does me leafing and known as a can't tell you OK I mean the slight worry about this is you mean this is unusual mac so I suspect it's not the case but when you've got that sort of unusual behaviors Well it can sometimes indicate that there's some sort of malware on there or at least you haven't got any toolbars on your browser that should be that something 3rd party. Nd don't even know what 2 bottles always a row of buttons appears on your browser that isn't there from the manufacturer but has come from the. I wouldn't do anything I know is quite common I mean specially one particular Windows machines had people at them some sort of ease of use purposes. I think we should give your computer a scam to be honest and safe if we find anything that's on there that shouldn't be there I have to scan there and I have yet scanned it with the old C. Cleaner and all of this stuff but it says it cleans it and then of just when you thought you got rid of it comes back again have you tried and I mean you should have a 2nd Browne's on any comp