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Big Picture Science

Eye Spy

Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Who’s watching you? Could be anyone, really. Social media sites, webcams, CCTV cameras and smartphones have made keeping tabs on you as easy as tapping “refresh” on a tablet. And who knows what your cell phone records are telling the NSA? Surveillance technology has privacy on the run, as we navigate between big data benefits and Big Brother intrusion. Find out why wearing Google Glass could make everything you see the property of its creator, and which Orwellian technologies are with us today. But just how worried should we be? A cyber security expert weighs in. Also, the benefits of an eye in the sky. A startup company claims that their suite of microsatellites will help protect Earth’s fragile environment. And Gary catches a cat burglar! Guests: Robert Gehl – Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Utah. His article, “A Mind Meld with the Surveillance State” appeared in an online issue of The Week. Hal Rappaport – Technology consultant for businesses, author of the paranormal thriller Hath No Fury: The Lesson of Three Book One. His article, “7 Sinister Technologies from Orwell’s 1984", appeared on the SyFy Channel’s online magazine. Susan Landau – Professor of cyber security policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, author of Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies and Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. William Marshall – Physicist, Planet Labs Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to interesting tech and mysteries in outer space.

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podcasts. You post your entire life online. Wearable computers record

1:01.0

what you do and where you are, but is surveillance improving your life

1:04.7

or intruding on it?

1:06.2

The line between big data and big brother, it's I spy on big Picture Science. We live in a society replete with technological gadgets. You've got a need, well, there's an

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app for that.

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Apps for everything from tracking our sleep cycles to monitoring our homes from far away.

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