Dylan Curran is a tech expert and privacy consultant based in Ireland who recently blew up the Twitterspere with a series of tweets detailing the staggering scope and breadth of data collection by companies such as Facebook and Google.

 

We talk about big data collection; whether our phones are listening to our conversations; the reality of incognito mode in Chrome; global porn trends; the Darknet; the Blockchain; 23andMe and issues with privacy; advertising; webcam and microphone hacking; the quantum computer arms race; Russian hacker groups; rationality and terrorism; future consumer trips to orbit and the colonisation of Mars; what we can do to get back our privacy and security online and why we might be living in one of the best and most exciting periods of human history. Dylan's Work:

Twitter @iamdylancurran

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Recorded in Christchurch, New Zealand