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The release of the car

The day is here, the car with no key´s is released. We're so excited that everybody loves our new electric car with the face-scanning function to lock and open the car! People are messaging us about how quick and easy it is to use, its a masterpiece.

But, unfortunately, there is a few that has called us frustrated with the car not opening, but they were saved with our app! The app with your username etc. is connected with the car, so you just have to press “unlock” and then it is fixed!  No one has had to use the emergency key yet, so that is a very good sign! We are keeping our fingers crossed and are thrilled of all the good feedback we have received. 

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First job scandal

1 week at my new job and I've gotten myself in quite a pickle. You know we're a high tech company, so there's all kinds of electronic things I have not yet gotten my head into. Well, as a newbie, you know you need some extra help and need to ask a few question now and then. Well, I had to ask my boss about something. I stood in front of the door ready to go in and ask for his time, but there was no handle on the door. I looked around, and found a kind of screen thing with a button on the end. I tried to press the button, it did not react at first, so I went again and pressed it. But in the very micro second I pressed, two options appeared, first option “Owner” and “colleague”. And since I did not register that at once, I automatically pressed as “owner”. Then the screen suddenly started to scan my entire face, for around 15 seconds. Then it started to beep a loud alarm sound and blinking red, so the securities came and all my other colleagues came over to see what happened.

So, there I stood, one week in my first job and now everybody knows me as the “alarm-girl” :-)

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No more car-keys

Working with the team at Mercedes has been a blast! Love my new job.  Today we released the news about our new car that's releasing in March 2020. This car will scan your face, using it as a key. You no longer need to remember you car keys, or loosing them in a place where you don't remember. This is fantastic news. You're maybe wondering “what if this function get´s disabled?”, Well, the team that has been developing this, has tested it in and out for 2 years straight, so it is practically bulletproof. However, even the greatest things in life has some errors from time to time. So, if there is a problem there will also be an app from your phone that you are able to use, and an emergency key that follows with the car, and you can also call our 24 hours open phone-line, so IF there is a problem, its fixed within seconds. 

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Smarter or dangerous?

So! After a couple of meetings with the new job, we've discovered something we do not know how to handle. The government in Norway wants to introduce a new way of being able to get necessary information about people. They want to introduce an automatic search app where you scan a persons face, to get their name, number and age. Not their address because of security reasons.  Of course it has it perks if your wondering if you know that person from before, or just for the right reasons. But there are people out there we believe would missuse the app for the wrong reasons. Even so the app don't give the address to the person being scanned, the person using the app for the wrong reason will easily be able to find the address 100 times easier by using that app. So what should we do here?