Who's Watching Us?
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ever had the nagging suspicion that you’re being watched? You are. We all are. Surrounded by security cameras — in malls, restaurants, airports, workplaces, even in church, spied on by our very own phones and computers. Yes, surveillance can keep us safe, but we’re in danger of losing the last shreds of our privacy. In this hour, we explore not only the pros and cons of living while being watched, but what it's like to be doing the watching.
Guests:
Cari Ness Nesje
Randolph Lewis
Lily Hay Newman
Josh Koury
Myles Kane
Marina Lutz
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Anstrain Champs. |
| 0:05.1 | Do you ever get the feeling that your digital devices are eavesdropping on you? |
| 0:10.7 | How can I help you? |
| 0:14.4 | We were standing in my office, and we were just having one of these conversations that's really boring but necessary about needing to replace the water heater in our house. |
| 0:26.7 | This is public radio listener Carrie Ness Nasha. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. |
| 0:34.3 | And after the conversation was finished, my husband left for work, and I just turned around and logged into my computer and was starting my workday. |
| 0:43.6 | And I noticed an ad on the right side of my screen for a water heater. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm actually sort of an Apple junkie, so I've got a MacBook, an iPad, and an iPhone. |
| 0:55.7 | We have Apple TV. We have the whole suite of products from that particular company. |
| 1:01.8 | We sort of had this light bulb go on. It was like, oh, our devices are listening to us. |
| 1:10.1 | No problem. |
| 1:12.6 | And we have noticed it happening more frequently. |
| 1:17.1 | We had posted a picture of us having a champagne toast, and the label of the champagne bottle |
| 1:26.1 | was in the picture. |
| 1:28.5 | We noticed as the next day for that brand of champagne in particular showing up in |
| 1:34.8 | her Facebook feeds. |
| 1:36.6 | We got an American Girl doll from Grandma and Grandpa sent to our daughter for Christmas, |
| 1:41.2 | and all of a sudden we're seeing all of these ads for American girls all. |
| 1:45.8 | We've always known |
| 1:47.4 | that we were sort of |
| 1:48.9 | under surveillance |
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