Your data, the U.S. government and the 'new American surveillance state'
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Your exact location, what apps you use, the last thing you bought online. Your data is for sale – and the U.S. government is buying it.
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:47.0 | Many of us have probably had an experience similar to that of on-point listener Christina Hoffman |
| 0:52.0 | who lives in California. |
| 0:53.6 | So one day I'm listening to music via Alexa Echo and a song came on and I said, oh, I love this song. |
| 1:03.1 | You know, I would have this play at the memorial service for me. |
| 1:07.2 | And my daughter says, oh, wow, yeah, you gotta let us know. |
| 1:11.5 | I mean, I'm young and not dying anytime soon, but we were just |
| 1:16.5 | chatting, I like to plan all sorts of parties and to the music. The next day I'm getting ads on Facebook and other things about funeral hoes. |
| 1:27.0 | And Christina says she was freaked out. |
| 1:30.0 | I'd never searched anything online about that. |
| 1:32.8 | That was just from a conversation in my kitchen |
| 1:36.8 | and I didn't say, hey, Alexa, look up funeral homes. |
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