“Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies—largely unregulated, little scrutinized—are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files.” These are the first lines of New York Times opinion editor Stuart A. Thompson’s recent co-authored piece “Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy.”

Today on the show, Patty spends the hour talking with Stuart Thompson about the smartphone tracking industry, his research for The Privacy Project, big data, and surveillance in our highly networked society.

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