Day 5: Your Personal Terms of Service
Note to Self
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🗓️ 10 February 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The last day of the Privacy Paradox challenge. We'll draw some conclusions from this week—and some boundaries for the future. With Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented a little something called the World Wide Web. He has a big idea for a more secure, more private experience online. And he thinks we can build it together.
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| 0:00.0 | This privacy paradox project has come at the perfect time for me. |
| 0:05.3 | These things are creepy, they're the things that follow you around. |
| 0:08.0 | Instead of just clicking download and clicking OK, I emailed back and asked for more information. |
| 0:15.0 | Stayed for myself, basically. |
| 0:17.5 | As much as I value my occasional internet and nimity, I find myself also wanting a validated identity. |
| 0:30.0 | It's note to self the tech show about being human. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Manou Shzomerodi and this is the final day of our five part plan to help you take back your digital identity and yourself. |
| 0:43.0 | Privacy paradox. |
| 0:45.0 | Over the past week we've talked about what your phone knows, how we get categorized by advertisers, what happens to our brain when we let everything out online. |
| 0:55.0 | And how having something to hide is actually healthy. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll talk more about the changes you've made here, lots of stories, and figure out how we go forward on next week's results show. |
| 1:14.0 | And now for day five, we've got a special treat. |
| 1:18.0 | The man whose visionary invention changed our world forever. |
| 1:25.0 | So here's the reason why we always have to type WWW, right? |
| 1:29.0 | Well, yes. |
| 1:32.0 | Certimburners Lee is the inventor of the worldwide web. |
| 1:36.0 | WWW, I follow the name. |
| 1:38.0 | Google didn't check to nobody else was using it. |
| 1:41.0 | Because Google didn't exist. |
| 1:43.0 | Yes, I got the joke. |
| 1:45.0 | Back in March of 1989, he told his colleagues at Surn, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, |
| 1:52.0 | that he had an idea for a radical new way of linking and sharing information. |
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