Carissa Veliz: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Digital Identity Crisis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Raise a spoon to Grandma, who always took all the hungry cousins to McDonald's for McNuggets and the PlayPlay Slide. |
| 0:06.5 | Have something sweet in her honor. |
| 0:08.3 | Come to McDonald's and treat yourself to the Grandma McFlurry today. |
| 0:11.8 | Bar-da-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa. |
| 0:13.3 | They're participating in McDonald's for a limited time. |
| 0:15.3 | Okay, Professor Carissa Veliz, I'm going to start with a quotation from you, from your TED Talk. |
| 0:22.0 | In the data economy, |
| 0:27.6 | everything you do gets translated into data and sold to the highest bidder. Thousands of corporations and governments around the world know who you are, what you do, where you live, who your |
| 0:32.5 | family is, what you eat, how much you weigh, who you sleep next to, whether you're having an affair, |
| 0:39.2 | what you hope for, what you fear, what you desire, what tempts you and where you hurt. |
| 0:45.3 | All of this incredibly sensitive data gets compiled and sold to almost anyone who wants to buy it, |
| 0:50.2 | and it turns out there's a lot of people who want to buy it, |
| 0:53.7 | most of whom don't have your best interest at heart. |
| 0:56.7 | It's a perverse system and we need to stop it. |
| 0:59.7 | Please expand. |
| 1:03.8 | So, for those of us who were born before the internet was such a common mode of communication and of really being in the world. |
| 1:17.5 | Whenever there was talk of tracking someone, whether it was through video or taping them or |
| 1:26.6 | following them, we used to call this spying and spyware. |
| 1:33.1 | And when the internet kicked off, it was designed by people who weren't thinking about how it might be misused and what kind of business model |
| 1:50.0 | companies might have on there. |
| 1:53.3 | A company like Google was a protagonist in this story because they were a startup and on |
| 1:59.5 | one hand they were successful because their search |
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