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H.B.R. presents. Hi there, I'm Azimazar and you're listening to Exponential View.

Every week I come together with a brilliant mind to discuss the intricate dance of technology and society.

Now we're well aware these days that our personal data is worth a lot.

The biggest technology companies like Google and Facebook have become multi-billion dollar

juggernauts by hovering up this data and using it to sell personalized advertising. There's an old saying that if you're not paying

for the product you are the product. Now I've explored many of these issues in

exponential view over the past five years I do recommend you jump over to exponential view

co and take a look.

The question is what should we do about it?

It's one thing to articulate the problem of the use or abuse of our

personal data. It's another to suggest how we move forward.

Now my guest today, Karissa Velez, associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in

AI at the University of Oxford, has some concrete suggestions. In her new book Privacy is Power

Carissa offers a damning analysis of the data economy and proposes bold measures to end it.

Ownership of personal data she claims is a form of power and the

concentration of that power in the hands of corporations and governments is a threat

to the social institutions and perhaps even liberal democracy itself.

Trading personal data, she argues, is like trading in a toxic substance,

and we must put a stop to it.

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