Is Privacy Dead?
To get our online services for free, we give away the details of our lives. But firms make money off this data in ways we don’t always realise. The Inquiry asks “Is Privacy Dead?”
We all do it: ask a search engine things we wouldn’t dare ask a friend, post our lives on social media, hit the ‘agree’ button on privacy conditions we never read. This is life in our online age. To get our favourite apps and services for free, we provide companies with the intimate details of our lives. Businesses we’ve heard of, and many we haven’t, make money off this data in ways we may not fully realise. And almost every week it seems there’s another data breech – Equifax, Sonic, and Deloitte have been hacked in the last month alone. Each time the private data of millions of people is compromised. Can we control who knows what about us? And are we comfortable with how much information we’re giving up and how it might be used, or mis-used? This week the Inquiry asks “Is Privacy Dead?”
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How Private is our Data?
Duration: 01:18
Broadcasts
- Thu 5 Oct 201702:06GMTBBC World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & West and Central Africa only
- Thu 5 Oct 201703:06GMTBBC World Service South Asia & East Asia only
- Thu 5 Oct 201706:06GMTBBC World Service Australasia & East and Southern Africa only
- Thu 5 Oct 201707:06GMTBBC World Service Europe and the Middle East
- Thu 5 Oct 201713:06GMTBBC World Service Australasia
- Thu 5 Oct 201714:06GMTBBC World Service except Australasia & News Internet
- Thu 5 Oct 201719:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Sat 7 Oct 201723:06GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Mon 9 Oct 201703:06GMTBBC World Service Australasia
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