:00:00. > :00:00.minister saying the programme was for self defence. That is it for me.
:00:00. > :00:09.We will be back at two o'clock. Now it is time for the Click.
:00:10. > :00:47.Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different, they are a series
:00:48. > :00:55.She's been taking plenty of money out for herself.
:00:56. > :00:59.It's most expensive playground fight in history.
:01:00. > :01:02.In Donald Trump's America, people are put back to work.
:01:03. > :01:06.Let's remember what happened on 9/11, these were not refugees.
:01:07. > :01:10.This Monday sees the first US presidential debates,
:01:11. > :01:15.and although voters will probably be reminded of what the nominees stand
:01:16. > :01:20.for, I can't help thinking that they'll be at least a little bit
:01:21. > :01:27.The last big presidential battle was all about YouTubeing
:01:28. > :01:32.the candidates into peoples homes, but now Facebook and Twitter
:01:33. > :01:38.are the main online battlegrounds, and that's not just in the US.
:01:39. > :01:41.There's no doubt about it, some of the big platforms
:01:42. > :01:45.You've got national parties who want to get their
:01:46. > :01:48.political messages out, and they have to pay for that -
:01:49. > :01:53.that's bought advertising, in the old sense.
:01:54. > :01:56.If they don't do that, they don't get their message
:01:57. > :02:00.to voters, and that's where Facebook have got us all on lockdown.
:02:01. > :02:04.The Tories were ahead of the game at the last general election,
:02:05. > :02:07.the other parties are going to catch up by the next general
:02:08. > :02:12.But social media is about more than paid for advertising.
:02:13. > :02:18.Politicians can engage with voters, their messages can go viral.
:02:19. > :02:20.Supporter groups can rally and massively big up
:02:21. > :02:27.We even judge how important that message is based on the number
:02:28. > :02:35.So it's probably quite important to know that not all of these
:02:36. > :02:40.They are fake followers, run by political campaigns
:02:41. > :02:45.to amplify certain topics, follows certain people,
:02:46. > :02:53.These are the political Twitter bots.
:02:54. > :02:56.The bots will take a message and repeat it an hour
:02:57. > :03:01.later, or maybe two hours and three hours later.
:03:02. > :03:04.They'll send it off to their own networks of followers, tens, 20,000
:03:05. > :03:06.times beyond what the politician can initially reach with
:03:07. > :03:12.Phil Howard is a professor of political science
:03:13. > :03:16.at the Oxford Internet Institute, whose research has revealed that
:03:17. > :03:18.political campaigns are now routinely using bots
:03:19. > :03:25.Including deflecting Donald Trump's comments about Mexican-Americans.
:03:26. > :03:27.They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime,
:03:28. > :03:33.He made a claim that Mexican-American voters
:03:34. > :03:39.would support him, would be voting for him in a big way.
:03:40. > :03:41.And shortly after making this big claim, there was a community
:03:42. > :03:45.of Latino Twitter bots, so folks with Mexican sounding names,
:03:46. > :03:49.who were US citizens and using Twitter to voice
:03:50. > :03:55.A little bit of research showed that these were all new users,
:03:56. > :03:58.they weren't actually users, they were bots, tweeting the same
:03:59. > :04:00.message, sometimes exactly the same message,
:04:01. > :04:07.And so he was able to say, Mexican-Americans will vote for me
:04:08. > :04:09.and point to a community that was actually just
:04:10. > :04:14.There are very strict rules governing what the media can report
:04:15. > :04:23.To your knowledge, are there rules to cover social media like Twitter?
:04:24. > :04:26.I think there should be more public policy oversight,
:04:27. > :04:31.over social networks, social media networks during elections.
:04:32. > :04:37.In a US context, the elections, the Federal Elections Commission
:04:38. > :04:39.there has decided that electronic communications are not part
:04:40. > :04:48.For example, they'll be following many more accounts
:04:49. > :04:55.They might have blank or irrelevant profile pictures and names,
:04:56. > :04:58.and they may be tweeting at an inhumanly fast rate.
:04:59. > :05:02.High-quality bots, however, will look a lot more human.
:05:03. > :05:06.In fact they may even be connected to a real human, who can give
:05:07. > :05:12.There's actually a market in these false accounts.
:05:13. > :05:15.So you buy 1,000 users who look good, they'll join five
:05:16. > :05:20.or ten at a time, over the course of a month or two.
:05:21. > :05:23.By the time you're into the campaign season, three weeks before,
:05:24. > :05:29.This is a great question, and it's part of the research
:05:30. > :05:37.The people designing political bots often work for the political
:05:38. > :05:42.campaign teams that a candidate will hire when they want Office.
:05:43. > :05:45.Hiring somebody to write bots, to amplify your message,
:05:46. > :05:49.is now a normal part of political campaigning in advanced democracies.
:05:50. > :05:55.But then there are the bots that, so far, haven't done anything...
:05:56. > :06:00.This bot is an example of a bot that has joined relatively recently.
:06:01. > :06:03.It's following 108 people, but nobody is following it.
:06:04. > :06:06.We think of this as a sleeper, a sleeper bot, it's
:06:07. > :06:13.My great fear is that large networks of these bots may be activated
:06:14. > :06:19.Someone will activate bot networks to either bring up the vote,
:06:20. > :06:26.There's enough bot networks out there, and we've seen them used
:06:27. > :06:30.in sensitive political moments, that I'm pretty sure they'll play
:06:31. > :06:36.an active part of political communication in the US election.
:06:37. > :06:39.For all the big budget deception that may be happening,
:06:40. > :06:44.social media does give each one of us a voice,
:06:45. > :06:47.and an immediate channel through which we can
:06:48. > :06:52.Those are tiny acts of the participation,
:06:53. > :06:55.which in an earlier era would have just been too small.
:06:56. > :06:58.Politics was much lumpier, you would have had to join
:06:59. > :07:02.a political party, you would have had to go to a very long meeting,
:07:03. > :07:06.That fact, that you can do very small bits of politics,
:07:07. > :07:09.I think is drawing people into politics that wouldn't have
:07:10. > :07:15.So maybe we're lucky to be living in an age where a tiny click
:07:16. > :07:18.on an online petition can bring about real change.
:07:19. > :07:21.That is assuming that we can find the right issues,
:07:22. > :07:26.and the right candidates to bring about that change.
:07:27. > :07:30.Kate Russell has been to the US to meet the start ups who are trying
:07:31. > :07:38.to connect voters to candidates, and candidates to money.
:07:39. > :07:44.I can think of nowhere that I would rather have this victory!
:07:45. > :07:46.There's declining faith in government, declining trust
:07:47. > :07:57.It's a very, very small number of people, with a lot of money,
:07:58. > :08:02.Locked into a two party system and playing out a presidential race
:08:03. > :08:05.costing hundreds of millions of dollars, some people think
:08:06. > :08:11.One of the biggest problems with politics here
:08:12. > :08:17.The way that rich people, big companies and also on the other
:08:18. > :08:20.side of the fence, the unions, use money to literally buy
:08:21. > :08:22.the outcomes they want from the political system.
:08:23. > :08:29.Former strategy adviser to UK Prime Minister David Cameron,
:08:30. > :08:33.Steve Hilton is now on a mission in San Francisco to unbind US
:08:34. > :08:37.politics from big-money donors, by letting candidates
:08:38. > :08:44.We want to take the power out of the hands of the insiders
:08:45. > :08:48.and the deal-makers and the people who for so long have controlled
:08:49. > :08:50.everything in politics, and put the power directly
:08:51. > :08:56.Just as technology has done in so many other parts of our lives.
:08:57. > :08:59.It has the potential to help independent candidates run
:09:00. > :09:05.for election without having to sign up to one of the major parties.
:09:06. > :09:09.That is really off-putting for a lot of people, because they think that
:09:10. > :09:13.to get the money that they need, they have to sign up to a bunch
:09:14. > :09:16.of policies or ideas that they don't really agree with.
:09:17. > :09:19.As well as helping politicians drum up support, Crowdpac wants to help
:09:20. > :09:24.voters find the right candidate in the many smaller elections held
:09:25. > :09:29.They've collected hundreds of millions of public records
:09:30. > :09:32.from US elections, going back to 1980.
:09:33. > :09:36.We've been able to take all the information and boil it down
:09:37. > :09:42.to a simple objective score, if you like, which is a very basic,
:09:43. > :09:45.ideological score, left-right system, that tells you who is more
:09:46. > :09:51.In July when the presidential candidates were chosen,
:09:52. > :09:55.US Facebook has generated more than 1 billion likes, comments
:09:56. > :10:01.Assuming they were real people not bots, 25-34 year-olds
:10:02. > :10:08.Facebook is the place in which people go and kind
:10:09. > :10:10.of interact and talk about their social life
:10:11. > :10:15.LinkedIn's kind of taken over owning your professional identity,
:10:16. > :10:22.and yet there isn't really a platform which allows you to act
:10:23. > :10:25.out in the persona of a voter and actually use technology
:10:26. > :10:27.to interact with the political system.
:10:28. > :10:31.Brigade is a new social network that wants to take those conversations
:10:32. > :10:33.out of the town square of America's Facebook feeds,
:10:34. > :10:41.What we're trying to do is figure out how to use existing technology
:10:42. > :10:44.that has already had a big impact on other spaces,
:10:45. > :10:46.from dating to social networking, and apply those new tools
:10:47. > :10:56.Conversations begin with a simple agree or disagree interaction,
:10:57. > :11:00.and then users can debate the issue with other voters in their district.
:11:01. > :11:02.Post-election, Brigade wants to become the go-to place
:11:03. > :11:05.for citizens to hold officials to task for their actions,
:11:06. > :11:12.On the flip side, it would be a great place for politicians
:11:13. > :11:18.to engage with influential groups and constituents,
:11:19. > :11:21.rather than just relying on campaign funds to win an election.
:11:22. > :11:23.I think that it's probably impractical that we're
:11:24. > :11:27.It's really important, on the other side,
:11:28. > :11:30.that the principle of one person, one vote is the overriding,
:11:31. > :11:34.dominant form of power in the political system,
:11:35. > :11:39.and that representatives are held to account for the views
:11:40. > :11:44.Both the Silicon Valley start-ups are driven by a desire to reconnect
:11:45. > :11:48.Americans with the political system from a grassroots perspective.
:11:49. > :11:54.Make them care, by giving them transparency and more control.
:11:55. > :11:56.The American electorate is getting younger, too.
:11:57. > :11:59.Yet history maps a declining youth turnout at the presidential ballot
:12:00. > :12:07.I think as our democracy has scaled, as our democracy has got bigger
:12:08. > :12:11.and more complex and people's lives have gotten busier, it's become
:12:12. > :12:14.really hard for people to stay plugged into the political process.
:12:15. > :12:19.So we need to figure out how to make that an easier thing for people
:12:20. > :12:21.to understand and participate in, if we're going to renew people's
:12:22. > :12:28.That's a big ask, but the long-term prize is a more engaged electorate,
:12:29. > :12:36.participating in a process that looks a lot more like the dictionary
:12:37. > :12:49.Hello and welcome to The Week In Tech.
:12:50. > :12:52.It was the week that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife
:12:53. > :12:55.Priscilla Chan pledged ?2.3 billion to fund medical research
:12:56. > :13:03.The ultimate aim of their Chan-Zuckerberg initiative?
:13:04. > :13:06.Curing, preventing and managing all diseases by the end
:13:07. > :13:12.On a rather smaller scale, it was also the week that Google
:13:13. > :13:15.joined the messaging game again, by launching its new chat app, Allo.
:13:16. > :13:18.Privacy campaigners have criticised the app, though,
:13:19. > :13:20.after it was revealed that rather than temporarily storing users'
:13:21. > :13:23.conversations and data, Google will now hold onto it
:13:24. > :13:37.And from cat videos to the catwalk, as London Fashion Week played host
:13:38. > :13:44.Instead of a runway, designer Martine Jarlgaard showed
:13:45. > :13:47.off her wares with the help of the Microsoft Hololens,
:13:48. > :13:51.which let visitors get up close to 3D models of the models.
:13:52. > :13:54.And finally, the head of a bull, the body of a robot -
:13:55. > :13:57.a terrifying beast that scares the likes of anyone
:13:58. > :14:03.The legs of the bot are hooked up to special motors that mean
:14:04. > :14:06.the Minitaur can effectively feel and respond to
:14:07. > :14:10.It also means it can do a number of tricks,
:14:11. > :14:19.like backflips, cartwheels, climbing the stairs and...
:14:20. > :14:25.Next up, we're going to take a look at some new tricks you can do
:14:26. > :14:30.Burner numbers for Tinder, no roaming charges, a stealth mode
:14:31. > :14:34.Dan Simmons looks at the revolution happening in mobile,
:14:35. > :14:39.and he's met one company boss who's taking no prisoners.
:14:40. > :14:56.I only rang you like a hundred times today.
:14:57. > :15:01.Just stop calling me, erase my contact.
:15:02. > :15:07.No! Hello?
:15:08. > :16:33.According to this man there is an easy and hard way
:16:34. > :16:37.to control who has your digits, and that was the hard way.
:16:38. > :16:40.Our phone numbers, our mobile numbers is the things that's
:16:41. > :16:44.When someone doesn't want to give his phone
:16:45. > :16:48.number, he's telling you, I give you my e-mail,
:16:49. > :16:51.add me on Facebook, etc, etc, but the phone number
:16:52. > :16:57.Taig used to be a stuntman, oh, and he's also a double
:16:58. > :17:04.But now he's reinventing himself as the boss of one of several
:17:05. > :17:07.new phone companies that is starting to shake
:17:08. > :17:11.up the mobile space, as you do.
:17:12. > :17:14.His onoff service is changing the rules in France, and now the UK,
:17:15. > :17:21.We are bringing like virtual operating system that provides
:17:22. > :17:23.multiple phone numbers, but not only that.
:17:24. > :17:28.For example, you can send SMS at a delayed time.
:17:29. > :17:32.You can put the call on voicemail, but leave the SMS on.
:17:33. > :17:34.You cannot do that with any phone in the world.
:17:35. > :17:37.It gives you so much flexibility in your hands,
:17:38. > :17:40.to give maybe a different phone number for your business,
:17:41. > :17:46.for your friends, for one night, or whatever.
:17:47. > :17:49.Users can go into stealth mode, to hide the numbers they're
:17:50. > :17:53.using for certain things from prying eyes, or adopt a number that's local
:17:54. > :18:02.Using apps to make Internet calls isn't new, but both caller
:18:03. > :18:06.and receiver often have to have the app installed,
:18:07. > :18:14.As well as data, it uses the GSM network to connect to the handset,
:18:15. > :18:17.so you can do SMS messages, get wider coverage,
:18:18. > :18:23.and just one person - even if that's the receiver -
:18:24. > :18:27.There's another benefit that we've all been seeing with these
:18:28. > :18:30.new messengers and that's cheap, or apparently free, calls.
:18:31. > :18:33.You may say, well that's all very well, but I still need to pay
:18:34. > :18:36.for a mobile contract to get a connection to use
:18:37. > :19:03.FreedomPop, for example, wants to give you a free SIM
:19:04. > :19:06.with free calls and free data, and this month, for the first
:19:07. > :19:08.time, unlimited use of the Whatsapp messenger.
:19:09. > :19:10.FreedomPop right now provides a basic free service.
:19:11. > :19:14.Where were trying to get to is a point where we can
:19:15. > :19:17.take that free service, double it up and double it up again.
:19:18. > :19:20.And ultimately we'd like to get to a point where your voice,
:19:21. > :19:24.In London, uSwitch hands out awards for utilities
:19:25. > :19:28.They help consumers switch providers to get the best deal,
:19:29. > :19:31.and they're warning that these services may not be for everyone.
:19:32. > :19:34.A lot of the services that you would normally expect
:19:35. > :19:36.on a traditional mobile network, whether it be voicemail,
:19:37. > :19:39.whether it be rolling over data that was unused into
:19:40. > :19:41.the following month, even alerts when you're coming close
:19:42. > :19:44.to your limits, aren't actually free on these services.
:19:45. > :19:46.They're all litte additional fees that you might pay
:19:47. > :19:50.In the case of apps like onoff, multiple numbers come
:19:51. > :19:54.The old telecoms networks are starting to respond to these
:19:55. > :19:57.Next month Deutsche Telekom launches its new Immmr
:19:58. > :19:59.app that merges SMS, calls and offers multiple numbers.
:20:00. > :20:02.While others can't wait to create their own,
:20:03. > :20:04.and will partner with onoff in around 40 countries
:20:05. > :20:09.In the race for cheap thrills, it seems nobody wants to be
:20:10. > :20:23.One of the big trends of the last few years has been strapping
:20:24. > :20:33.on a little video camera and filming yourself doing all kinds of crazy
:20:34. > :20:35.action stuff - climbing, skydiving and, yes,
:20:36. > :20:43.It's how GoPro made its name, but recently the company hasn't
:20:44. > :20:47.However, Richard Taylor has been to Lake Tahoe in the US,
:20:48. > :20:50.to witness an attempt to make GoPro soar once more.
:20:51. > :20:53.Better late than never, the long-awaited GoPro drone
:20:54. > :20:56.sees the light of day, and its first foray into the skies
:20:57. > :21:00.is certainly portable, with an impressive low-profile
:21:01. > :21:03.design and stabilisation through its Gimball,
:21:04. > :21:06.which can be detached and used to achieve silky smooth shots
:21:07. > :21:09.on the included grip, and, uniquely, on GoPro's vast
:21:10. > :21:18.So, time to give this ?720 quadcopter a whirl.
:21:19. > :21:24.It's semi-autonomous modes make it straightforward,
:21:25. > :21:31.even for a complete novice like me, to pilot it safely and get
:21:32. > :21:35.And, well, to be frank, GoPro needs it to be a hit.
:21:36. > :21:39.Two years ago when GoPro went public it was flying high with its suite
:21:40. > :21:41.of technologically advanced action-cams, but since then,
:21:42. > :21:45.Rivals have caught up technologically, and there's a lot
:21:46. > :21:47.more competition, not just in cameras, but also in drones.
:21:48. > :21:50.In particular the drone pioneered DJI has a new craft
:21:51. > :21:56.It too will also be ultraportable and support other features
:21:57. > :21:59.Not exactly auspicious for GoPro and its tumbling share price.
:22:00. > :22:01.You certainly look very excited this morning,
:22:02. > :22:03.but I'm just wondering, obviously with your stock price
:22:04. > :22:07.being as it has been, are you feeling the pressure, a bit?
:22:08. > :22:21.Yes, but not because of the stock price.
:22:22. > :22:29.Because we are transparent about what our vision is.
:22:30. > :22:32.It's to help the world share better stories,
:22:33. > :22:34.and we understand that's not just about building a great camera,
:22:35. > :22:37.it's about building great software that make it easy for people
:22:38. > :22:40.to edit fantastic stories and share them, and then,
:22:41. > :22:45.As if to prove the point, Woodman and Co have also
:22:46. > :22:53.The Hero5 Black - GoPro's first new flagship model in two years.
:22:54. > :22:55.Amongst its features, a better 4K sensor, it's
:22:56. > :22:58.waterproof out of the box, voice control, GPS, stereo sound,
:22:59. > :23:01.and electronic image stabilisation, which, as you can see when I ride
:23:02. > :23:03.this bike, actually works pretty well.
:23:04. > :23:05.There's a even Cloud sharing straight from the device.
:23:06. > :23:08.This is all starting to sound like a high end
:23:09. > :23:11.Smartphones capture fantastic quality content, but they're very
:23:12. > :23:15.difficult to use during activities where any motion is involved, or,
:23:16. > :23:18.frankly, where you want to focus on your activity and not
:23:19. > :23:22.Filming, me filming you, here as I have my broken phone,
:23:23. > :23:27.because I did just that, and dropped it and broke it!
:23:28. > :23:33.GoPro is really about you being able to self-capture an experience
:23:34. > :23:40.A smartphone really gets in between you and what you're
:23:41. > :23:43.trying to enjoy, and that's a pain point that exists, and it's
:23:44. > :23:47.an opportunity for GoPro to solve for people.
:23:48. > :23:50.But is that opportunity big enough to send GoPro soaring once again?
:23:51. > :23:52.Well, one thing's for sure, there's nothing like a super
:23:53. > :23:56.new hero and a dose of good karma to get the faithful believing
:23:57. > :24:06.We live @BBCClick on Twitter, if you'd like to peek
:24:07. > :24:10.behind the scenes, and we will see you next week.