Hand over your virus data
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
How much data are we all prepared to share in the battle to beat the coronavirus? Rory Cellan-Jones speaks to Milo Ho-Hsuan Hsieh, a Taiwanese journalist who saw his phone tracked by the government after he was asked to self-isolate following a trip abroad. Jeni Tennison of the Open Data Institute says there are ways of sharing personal data more transparently and fairly, even in the midst of a pandemic. Lexi Sydow from App Annie, which monitors what apps get downloaded and where, tells us what millions of us stuck at home are doing on our phones. And one of the world’s leading AI experts Professor Stuart Russell tells us why artificial intelligence my not be about to ride to the rescue. The BBC's Jane Wakefield runs down the latest technology news.
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| 0:41.4 | No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to what's hot and what's not in the |
| 0:45.7 | technology world. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week you'll not be surprised to hear that we |
| 0:50.5 | have a program devoted almost entirely to tech and the coronavirus. We'll hear from the |
| 0:55.9 | young man in Taiwan who got a visit from the police after his phone died and they wanted to make |
| 1:00.4 | sure he was still in quarantine at home. We talked to a data scientist who wants governments to share |
| 1:06.4 | data about the disease but without infringing their citizens' human rights. |
| 1:11.2 | And we'll find out about what apps are proving popular with people stuck at home. |
| 1:17.1 | People like me, in fact, I'm joining you from my attic. |
| 1:20.8 | BBC Technology reporter Jane Wakefield is also at home. |
| 1:24.6 | Hi, Jane. How's it going? |
| 1:25.7 | Hi. Yeah, I'm enjoying not having to commute, frankly. |
| 1:29.2 | It's working well for me. I'm enjoying the view of your kitchen. Here's a little taste of what's |
| 1:35.9 | coming up. I wish I could say that we have a magic wand that we could wave. Technically on a dating |
| 1:41.4 | app, I mean, you can still use the app without having to meet in person. |
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