Drones, TikTok & Luigi Mangione have us asking: who's watching us?

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From the drones over New Jersey, to the surveillance cameras that captured Luigi Mangione, to even TikTok - our movements, our likeness, even our shopping habits can be tracked. But how did we get to this point? Host Brittany Luse sits down with NPR Cybersecurity Correspondent Jenna McLaughlin and the Brennan Center for Justice's Faiza Patel to get into just how much of our daily lives are up for grabs.

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0:20.0	Hello, hello.
0:21.6	I'm Brittany Luce and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's
0:26.4	going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:42.8	This week, we're connecting the dots between a backpack, drones, and TikTok.
0:44.5	I know, I know.
0:46.4	How are all of these things connected?
0:50.8	Well, we're going to find out with NPR's Jenna McLaughlin and the Brennan Center for Justice's Fiza Patel.
0:52.8	Jenna, Fiza, welcome to it.
0:54.2	It's been a minute.
0:54.9	Great to be here.
0:55.7	Thanks for having us.
0:56.5	Happy to have you both.
0:57.7	So last week, we covered the Luigi Mangione case and what it says about the larger feeling
1:02.1	toward health care in this country.
1:03.4	But there was one part of that conversation that I wanted to poke at a little more.
1:08.2	The photos authorities used to ID Mangione.
1:15.6	In Starbucks and in the taxi, and in the hostel, Mangione's face was captured by surveillance cameras. And granted, he was in Midtown, New York
1:21.7	City, one of the most heavily watched areas in the world. But I thought it was really striking
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