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?â€
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?â€
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How Private is our Data?
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- Thu 5 Oct 2017 02:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & West and Central Africa only
- Thu 5 Oct 2017 03:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service South Asia & East Asia only
- Thu 5 Oct 2017 06:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Australasia & East and Southern Africa only
- Thu 5 Oct 2017 07:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Europe and the Middle East
- Thu 5 Oct 2017 13:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Australasia
- Thu 5 Oct 2017 14:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service except Australasia & News Internet
- Thu 5 Oct 2017 19:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Sat 7 Oct 2017 23:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service except News Internet
- Mon 9 Oct 2017 03:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Australasia
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