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World Service,28 mins
Digital Planet
Available for over a year
Hari Prasad, a researcher in India who obtained an electronic voting machine and demonstrated how it can be tampered with has been arrested. His colleague, Alex Halderman joins Digital Planet to discuss what lies behind the arrest. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi discusses his new book Bursts about the predictability of human beings as revealed through data collected on new technologies. Azran Osman Rani, the CEO of Air Asia X talks to Jennifer Pak about his openness on Facebook to all his customers and why he believes privacy is over-rated. Rose Shuman the founder of Question Box joins Digital planet to give an update on the simple device that is bridging the digital divide in rural India.
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