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The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Product design as power and manipulation
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Product design as power and manipulation
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Woodrow Hartzog is law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, and his research focuses on quote “the complex problems that arise when personal information is collected by powerful new technologies, stored and disclosed online.” In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Hartzog discusses discusses the ways that technologies are designed, at the engineering level, to undermine our privacy. Social media companies, for example, which make money on user data via advertisers, "have every incentive to use the power they have with designers to engineer your almost near-constant disclosure of information," Hartzog says, adding our modern privacy frameworks, which emphasize informed consent, are broken models. "We will be worn down by design, our consent is pre-ordained," he says.
Released:
Aug 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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