The profound tech consequences of Roe v Wade
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Professor Gina Neff and Eva Blum-Dumontet investigate how individuals and tech companies should react to abortion becoming illegal in parts of the US. David Martin Ruiz from the Eurpoean consumer group BEUC explains what it calls Google's "fast track to surveillance" for its users, and making virtual reality sound immersive, with professor Mark Plumbley.
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| 0:31.1 | Welcome to TechTen. I'm Zoe Kleinman. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm the BBC's technology editor. |
| 0:34.8 | Under our microscope this week, the overturning of Roe v Wade |
| 0:38.2 | and how it could radically reshape how people and organisations operate online. |
| 0:43.1 | We'll hear an accusation that Google is deliberately making it easier to say yes to having your |
| 0:48.1 | data harvested than no. |
| 0:50.3 | And why making virtual reality world sound right might be just as tricky as making them look right. |
| 1:00.4 | First this week, the United States and indeed the world, are still getting to grips with the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the automatic right of American women to obtain an abortion. |
| 1:11.8 | We're talking about it here on TechTent because Tech is playing a big part in what's happened since and what's happening now. |
| 1:18.9 | Firstly, how both supporters of the decision and those who oppose it are using social media to celebrate. |
| 1:24.5 | It's 99 and for a right to celebrate. |
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