Can you keep a secret? or Privacy in the Digital Age
summary
Argues that surveillance as a business model drives design and gives concrete examples: Amazon Echo and Samsung TVs record ambient audio, the My Friend Cayla doll uploads kids conversations, cars and smartphones collect precise metadata, and companies monetize that data. Notes regulatory change with GDPR raising costs for data holders. Recommends engineers add provable opt‑outs, test that devices stop capturing extraneous input, and push products that let users actually delete or export data.
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chapters (33)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:35Privacy
- 0:55Janes background
- 1:23Bruce Schneier
- 1:54Surveillance
- 2:08Digital Surveillance
- 3:06Smart Devices
- 3:51Internet
- 4:36Appliances
- 5:00Echo Dot
- 6:42Samsung TV
- 7:01Metadata
- 8:03Whats the value
- 9:00What are we getting
- 9:45Facebook
- 11:06This is not normal
- 11:27Here is an opinion
- 12:16Personal space
- 13:29Scars division
- 14:06James Comey
- 14:32Freedom of Expression
- 14:56Back to the cloud
- 15:09Privacy advice
- 15:37Private conversations
- 16:55Phone is better
- 17:26Court proceedings were always recorded
- 17:53Privacy is implicit
- 18:26Data privacy walls
- 18:57Data protection in Europe
- 19:23Data ownership
- 20:38Privacy vs surveillance
- 21:19Book recommendation
- 21:39Code of conduct
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