Is Privacy Dead? Technological Approaches to the Technological Threat

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🗓️ 1 August 2007

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Latanya Sweeney talks about the changes in privacy due to data collection and approaches to protect privacy in the future, with Scientific American contributor Chip Walter. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned in this episode include privacy.cs.cmu.edu; www.chipwalter.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.6	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there.
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benny?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
0:26.7	Things people love.
0:28.0	T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.
0:31.8	Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting August 1st.
0:38.6	I'm Steve Murski.
0:40.0	This week on the podcast.
0:42.5	And we began sort of our data detective mission.
0:44.0	Could you go out on the Internet?
0:46.2	How much information can you find about people?
0:50.9	And one of the easiest targets is actually college-aged people.
0:56.6	That's Latanya Sweeney from Carnegie Mellon University, talking about computer privacy and privacy in general.
0:57.4	She's our guest this week, plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the
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