The End of the Internet Bargain?
With the scandals over use of our personal data by big groups like Facebook, could our whole relationship with internet-based services be breaking down?
Who gets to control your personal data on the internet? Ed Butler and guests discuss the future of data privacy. With the scandals over use of our personal data by big groups like Facebook, Ed asks the experts whether our whole relationship with internet-based services could be breaking down? Could the old grand bargain - the giving of our personal data for free to online firms, in return for free services - be about to end? Ed hears from three people steeped in years of data expertise, to explore the future of online privacy.
(Picture:One hundred cardboard cut-outs of Mark Zuckerberg outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 10th 2018. Credit: AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Contributors: Orla Lynskey, Assistant Professor in the Law Department at the London School of Economics. Specialist in data protection and privacy.
Justin Antonipillai, Founder and CEO at WireWheel. Former Acting Under Secretary at the US Department of Commerce.
StJohn Deakins, Founder and chief executive of CitizenMe.
Producer: Audrey Tinline
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