Porn, Condoms, Pregnant Teens and the Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Benjamin Wittes gives a lecture at the George Mason Law and Economic Center on his paper with Jodie Liu, "The Privacy Paradox: The Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats."
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| 0:29.0 | So we started with Google AutoComplete. |
| 0:35.0 | Type I think I am into Google. |
| 0:39.0 | And Google will inform you that you may think you are pregnant. |
| 0:43.0 | You may think you are bipolar. |
| 0:46.0 | You may think you're depressed. |
| 0:48.0 | You may think you're gay. |
| 0:50.0 | You may think you're crazy. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm scared that. |
| 0:54.0 | What do you think Google thinks you're scared at? |
| 0:57.0 | You're scared that you're gay. |
| 0:59.0 | You're scared that you might have HIV. |
| 1:01.0 | You might have herpes. |
| 1:03.0 | You might be pregnant. |
| 1:05.0 | Like we use Google as a kind of collective diary of whatever we may be thinking, |
| 1:09.0 | whatever we may be experiencing. |
| 1:11.0 | The first thing we're doing is confiding it to this remote entity. |
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