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The surveillance device you carry around all day

4,611,084 views | Marta Peirano • TEDxMadrid

"Why would anyone be watching me? I'm nobody." If this is your contribution to conversations about mass surveillance, tech journalist Marta Peirano would like a word with you. Wielding cautionary tales about contemporary data collection that make the Stasi seem quaint, Peirano explains how the data that our phones and algorithms automatically collect about us is ripe for misuse and exploitation by the next authoritarian regime. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

"Why would anyone be watching me? I'm nobody." If this is your contribution to conversations about mass surveillance, tech journalist Marta Peirano would like a word with you. Wielding cautionary tales about contemporary data collection that make the Stasi seem quaint, Peirano explains how the data that our phones and algorithms automatically collect about us is ripe for misuse and exploitation by the next authoritarian regime. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

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Marta Peirano

Journalist

Marta Peirano is a writer, journalist and the founder of the CryptoParty Berlin. She manages culture coverage at eldiario.es.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxMadrid, an independent event.

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