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Note to Self

Day 3: Something To Hide

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It's day three of Note to Self's Privacy Paradox challenge. There are the things you know you share online: selfies, emails, Facebook posts. But there is so. much. more. Marketers are mining the words you use, your tone and sentence length, to profile you. To assess your personality.

Today, find out who the Internet thinks you are. With the man who helped Google implement the right to be forgotten.

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0:00.0

This is my own personal privacy paradox.

0:06.0

You can just basically find out people's names and addresses in the voter registration.

0:10.0

Someone out there is really in Hensley Trucking, my internet usage.

0:14.0

How are we affected by these ethical obligations when using technology?

0:19.0

Help me find even a modicum of privacy somewhere in this information age.

0:27.0

It's note to self the tech show about being human.

0:32.0

I'm Anouche Zamorodi and this is day three of the privacy paradox.

0:37.0

Our five-part plan to help you take back your digital identity and yourself.

0:43.0

The goal of this week is to help you understand more about where your information goes,

0:49.0

weigh the trade-offs and make digital decisions that you can feel good about.

0:55.0

On day one, we talked about what our phones know and how metadata works.

0:59.0

Day two, we dove into advertising and how our online identities get created and then tracked.

1:06.0

You can still sign up to get the extra guides and tips and behind-the-scenes stuff

1:10.0

that we're including in our daily newsletter this week.

1:13.0

Go to privacyparadox.org.

1:17.0

So for the next two days, we're going to change tack a little bit.

1:27.0

We've examined how some of the technology works and now we need to examine how you operate.

1:34.0

And why we can't talk about digital privacy without getting into the psychological and philosophical side of the discussion.

1:47.0

Today, day three is called something to hide.

1:51.0

You've heard people say it.

1:53.0

If the government wants to read my emails, let them.

1:56.0

I've got nothing to hide.

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