This chapter delves into the troubling data collection practices of health-related applications, focusing on diabetes management tools. It highlights the alarming extent of user data harvesting and the intrusive access to personal information, often without users' informed consent.
Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard University talks about her book Surveillance Capitalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Zuboff argues that the monetization of search engines and social networks by Google, Facebook, and other large tech firms threatens privacy and democracy.