Privacy Paradox: Results Show

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🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tens of thousands of people did the Privacy Paradox challenge. And the results are in. Seven percent of you said you want to give up. (Sorry. Don’t!) Seventy percent of you want to push for big change. (Hooray! Do.) And we have ideas.

We’ll hear from Michal Kosinski, creator of Apply Magic Sauce, and Solon Barocas, who studies the ethics of machine learning at Microsoft Research. Plus, reports from our listeners on the wonder and terror of digging through their digital identities.

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0:00.0	Hi, note to self. This is Grace Barka, calling for Rest in Virginia.
0:05.6	Hi, my name is Chris and I live in Pennington, New Jersey.
0:08.0	Hi, note to self. This is Claire Gilchrist from Vancouver, BC, Canada.
0:12.4	Hi, note to self. This is Daniel from Phoenix, Arizona.
0:15.9	I find the privacy paradox to be quite intriguing.
0:19.9	Tens of thousands of you accepted our challenge to take on one of the dilemmas of our time.
0:27.8	Hi, my name is Lou, I live in London in the UK. This morning when I went for my run,
0:32.0	I was pondering the idea of data privacy.
0:36.9	The dilemma is this, we deeply value our right to privacy.
0:41.6	But whenever we download a new app or we sign up for something online,
0:45.5	we feel like we have to give up that right. We download it or sign up anyway,
0:50.2	because we want to connect with family or find a job or share an important document
0:55.2	or just know what's going on in the world.
0:57.6	I am the classic person who worries about privacy, but never really does anything about it.
1:03.7	Opting out isn't an option, so we just don't deal with it.
1:09.4	I had a discussion with coworkers who said they were scared of even thinking about privacy.
1:14.4	We just keep clicking yes to all those terms of service.
1:17.6	How are we private in today's world where we keep clicking yes for the sake of some benefit,
1:24.7	whether small or big?
1:26.8	Yeah, and besides, we love the great things we get from our technology.
1:30.4	It's a real double-edged source.
1:32.3	Actually, it's what researchers call the privacy paradox.
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