One way or another, financial actors are required by law to monitor their customers to fight money laundering. That means we are all under surveillance. Even high profile politicians are getting tangled up in this monitoring network as well. Insiders take us behind the scenes of that surveillance machinery, powered sometimes by automated systems. For a good cause? Welcome to False Positives - a podcast series by Agence France-Presse and Algorithm Watch. Episode #2 : Mass Surveillance.

Host : Alex Cadier

Editing by Camille Kauffmann

Music is by Nicolas Vair

Reporting and research by Pablo Jimenez Arandia, Naiara Bellio, Nicolas Kayser-Bril Yasir Gökce, Mayra Russo, Mathilde Saliou for Algorithm Watch; Benoît Pelegrin, Burcin Gercek and Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer for AFP.

Interview of Nigel Farage by Peter McCormack, in The Debanking of Nigel Farage

Translations :Natalie Handel, Joshua Melvin, Jean-Marc Mojon, Gregory Viscusi, Chris Wright, Joseph Schmid, Phillip Hazlewood 

Editors in chiefs: Naiara Bellio, for AlgorithmWatch and Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer for Agence France-Presse. 

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This podcast was based on a six month investigation conducted in the framework of the AlgorithmWatch Algorithmic Accountability Reporting fellowship. AlgorithmWatch is a non-profit organization based in Berlin and Zurich that fights to ensure that use of algorithms and Artificial Intelligence benefits the many, not just the few. Agence France-Presse, a leading global news agency present in 150 countries, contributed with additional research and fact-checking in the UK, France and Turkey, as well as the production of the podcast. 

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