The Depth of the Privacy Problem
The issue of digital privacy extends beyond simple consumer choices like reading terms of service or being careful with clicks.
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How Surveillance Tech Erodes Your Privacy
AI ethicist Jen Golbeck reveals the depth of data colonialism and offers strategies to reclaim privacy in a tracked world.
Corporations and governments have established a system of 'data colonialism' that tracks individual movements, searches, and habits for the purposes of profit and control.
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You've probably heard the warnings about digital privacy: read the terms of service, think before you share, be careful what you click.
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But AI ethicist Jen Golbeck says the problem runs a lot deeper than that.
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In this eye-opening talk, she reveals how corporations and governments built a system of "data colonialism" that tracks your movements, searches and habits — for profit and control.
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Learn how you can fight back against the surveillance state, starting with the devices in your own home.
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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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