Does More Convenience Mean Less Privacy?
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Friday, January 31, 2014
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"I am more concerned about the ... kind of scenario where we have willingly given away our autonomy in exchange for a little bit of convenience." — Alessandro Acquisti
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Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode The End Of Privacy.
About Alessandro Acquisti's TED Talk
Behavioral economist Alessandro Acquisti studies how everyday decisions contribute to blurring the line between our public and private lives.
About Alessandro Acquisti
Behavioral economist Alessandro Acquisti examines the paradox of privacy in an age when people freely disclose public information. He is a professor of information technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
His team's studies on facial recognition software showed that it can connect an anonymous human face to an online name, and a Facebook account in about 3 seconds. Other work shows how easy it can be to find a U.S. citizen's Social Security number using public data.
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