Google and Facebook became multibillion-dollar juggernauts by stockpiling data and using it to sell advertising. Governments can now track their citizens en masse. Where will this “surveillance capitalism” lead?
Dr. Carissa Véliz from the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford joins Azeem Azhar to consider what’s wrong with the data economy, and to explore her bold proposals for ending it.
They also discuss:
Why Google’s founders were initially opposed to selling ads.
Why privacy legislation stalled after 9/11.
How personalized content fractures the public sphere.
How the Nazis used population data to identify victims.
