What Facebook knows about you
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The social giant will reveal what it knows about your internet activity off of its platform. Will its users appreciate the transparency or be horrified? Plus, Twitter and Google take down accounts indicating co-ordinated posting relating to the Hong Kong protests. How has that gone down in China? And, 3D printing was meant to democratise manufacturing. It hasn't quite worked out like that, but we see one example of a 3D printed consumer product - a new type of bike helmet. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield, and special guest Isobel Asher Hamilton from Business Insider.
(Image: Stock photo of a couple on a sofa making an online purchase on a tablet computer, Credit: Hispanolistic/ Getty Images).
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| 0:49.2 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your essential weekly guide to all the top trends in technology. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week we talk to Facebook about its plan to show users |
| 0:59.6 | exactly how it monitors their activities all across the web. |
| 1:04.3 | We hear how Chinese social media users are reacting as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube |
| 1:09.8 | clamped down on alleged government propaganda accounts |
| 1:13.2 | spreading misinformation about Hong Kong. |
| 1:16.5 | And whatever happened to 3D printing, we meet a bike helmet company which still thinks it's the way forward. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm joined this week by BBC Technology reporter Jane Wakefield. |
| 1:25.8 | Hi, Jane. |
| 1:26.3 | Hello, Rory. |
| 1:27.3 | Good to have you back. And my special guest is |
| 1:29.8 | Isabel Asher Hamilton, technology correspondent at the Business Insider news site. Welcome, Isabel. |
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