Innovation or Intrusion: The Big Data Debate
Open to Debate
Open to Debate
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Idle money sits in your current account, stuck repeating the same tired tune, never hitting |
| 0:07.1 | play on its potential. |
| 0:11.5 | But thanks to Monzo's Savings Challenge, busy monies in the studio, laying down a little |
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| 0:21.6 | Monzo, the bank that gets your money moving. |
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| 0:28.7 | and prize teas and Cs apply. |
| 0:32.1 | This is open to debate. I'm John Donvan. Hi everybody. |
| 0:35.0 | I don't think it's a stretch to admit that most of us feel we are increasingly reliant on electronic devices surrounding us and also listening to us. I'm talking about our phones and smart speakers like Alexa and others. The technology, however, is also increasingly reliant on us for all of that information that it gathers as we walk and shop and search |
| 0:56.5 | online. It funds the internet. It fuels the data-driven economy. It even powers AI, especially |
| 1:02.3 | powers AI. We wanted to have a debate that gets to the heart of the trade-off involved that we make |
| 1:07.3 | every day. All of the innovations and benefits of the data being collected on us by so-called |
| 1:11.9 | big data, are those innovations and benefits worth what we give up in terms of our privacy? |
| 1:18.1 | Today I'm handing off the range to Zena Wicked. She's a global strategist and runs her own executive |
| 1:22.3 | coaching firm, Wicked Advisory. Zenya will be moderating this one. It's a really fun and thought-provoking conversation. |
| 1:29.0 | And so, here is Zena. This is open to debate, and I'm Zania Wicitt. Welcome to our discussion on big data. |
| 1:35.8 | Today, we're asking, is the mass collection of data a dangerous intrusion or necessary innovation? |
| 1:42.3 | I want to start with a small confession. |
| 1:44.9 | Like most people, I live very comfortably with the benefits of data. |
| 1:49.3 | I like that my phone predicts traffic. |
| 1:51.6 | I like that my bank spots forward before I do. |
| 1:54.8 | And I like that medicine is slowly moving from waiting until you feel ill |
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