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Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Spy-wear?

Rory Cellan-Jones and Chris Brauer

15/05/2015

Spy-wear?

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Spy-wear?

Your weekly status update on the technology business with Rory Cellan-Jones.

Your weekly status update on the technology business with Rory Cellan-Jones. How companies want to use wearable devices to sell us things.

Dr Chris Brauer from Goldsmiths, University of London, on how big brands want to sell us things via wearable devices. Bruce Schneier, security and privacy expert and author of the book "Data and Goliath", warns of the threat of companies and governments misusing data about us. Emily Bell, from the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism, on Verizon's buyout of AOL, and Facebook's instant articles. And Zoe Kleinman spends a night alone in a house full of robots. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Fiona Graham and Dave Lee from the BBC Online tech desk.

Image: Rory Cellan-Jones and Dr Chris Brauer.

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