Saturday, March 1, 2014

Private is not Secret

I have promoted the TED Radio Hour before as a marriage of TED Talks and the radio medium:
Five or so curated TED talks linked with interviews with the talkers.
For an hour.
One of the most recent TRHs was about Privacy, mostly related to the ability of technology to deprive us of it. For me, the most pressing points were: 1) that we have a right to privacy; 2) that privacy is not secrecy; 3) that absolute privacy has never been a feature of life in any society.

Now that we know that there has a been concerted effort to monitor our activities online for more than a decade, it is important that we learn the skills of being mindful of that fact. We should not shun social media, rather we should make decisions about what we wish to make public and what not.

Here is the programme

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