Sleepwalking into a Surveillance State
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Pippa King |
TEDxGlasgow
• June 2019
Everything, from our music tastes and shopping habits to our faces and fingerprints, is up for grabs in the business of big data.
But who exactly owns this data? How will it be used? And what impact will this ever-increasing digital footprint have on our lives?
These are questions that privacy campaigner, Pippa King, began to ask when she discovered that biometric data from her children was being collected by their school. As it turns out, this isn’t uncommon. Around 80% of schoolchildren will have had their fingerprint scanned by the time they leave school.
In this eye-opening talk, she asks, will privacy be an unknown concept for the next generation? Or will we – along with the government, policymakers, and business leaders – take a stand to protect our data privacy?