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The Inquiry: Is Privacy Dead?

Is Privacy Dead?

05/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Inquiry, Is Privacy Dead?

Can we protect our privacy in the digital age?

To get our online services for free, we give away the details of our lives. But firms make money off this data in ways we don’t always realise. The Inquiry asks “Is Privacy Dead?”

We all do it: ask a search engine things we wouldn’t dare ask a friend, post our lives on social media,  hit the ‘agree’ button on privacy conditions we never read. This is life in our online age. To get our favourite apps and services for free, we provide companies with the intimate details of our lives.  Businesses we’ve heard of, and many we haven’t, make money off this data in ways we may not fully realise. And almost every week it seems there’s another data breech – Equifax, Sonic, and Deloitte have been hacked in the last month alone. Each time the private data of millions of people is compromised. Can we control who knows what about us? And are we comfortable with how much information we’re giving up and how it might be used, or mis-used? This week the Inquiry asks “Is Privacy Dead?”

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