Privacy

How The Internet Is Responding To The NSA Story

Virginia Prescott and Brady Carlson — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:32:11 +0000

Privacy is a topic we’ve visited and revisited on this program, especially when it comes to the web community’s reaction to shifting policies on our social media and email accounts. Revelations made by former CIA and Booz Allen employee Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s sweeping electronic surveillance program could forever change the “privacy conversation.” Joining us with more on the internet’s reaction to the unfolding NSA story is Brady Carlson, our always-vigilant eye on social media and the world of the web.

The Privacy Paradox

Laura Knoy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:00:00 +0000

As technology advances, our private lives more and more enter the public domain, causing some to call for more laws protecting our personal lives. Others say privacy is not so easily defined and warn against restricting the free flow of information. We’ll look at this debate, and several bills in the State Legislature tightening up privacy laws.

Guests

Word of Mouth 9.08.2012

Virginia Prescott — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Part 1: The Science of Changing Your Mind/Sex and Religion

My Life is Your Life

Virginia Prescott — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:25:38 +0000

Greta Garbo is best known throughout her storied career for her plea from the 1932 film Grand Hotel. She later left the spotlight and chose to live the rest of her life privately and anonymously – an exit considered freakish by the public and a press which shadowed her the rest of her life. Today, we know far more about everyday citizens who’s allure falls far short of Garbo’s.

The See All Sample

Virginia Prescott — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:36:51 +0000

How government agencies will soon be sampling DNA from anyone over the age of 14 and possibly even younger.

It's a bird, it's a plane...it's a drone?

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:10:28 +0000

Unmanned drones will soon be taking to the skies here in the U.S. What this means for our ever-eroding privacy.

To Read All Those Web Privacy Policies, Just Take A Month Off Work

Shankar Vedantam — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:08:00 +0000

Internet surfers have long worried that they have insufficient control over their online privacy — despite the privacy policies many people agree to when they visit websites or use online services.

There are data to support the surfers' feelings: Online privacy policies are so cumbersome and onerous that it would take the average person about 250 working hours every year — about 30 full working days — to actually read the privacy policies of the websites they visit in a year, according to an analysis by researchers