Moral Maze

Is Privacy an outdated concept or a moral right?


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ID cards are back on the political agenda, digital this time, being pushed by an influential group of Labour MPs, and – surveys suggest – public opinion, which is increasingly worried about illegal immigration and benefit fraud. Time was, when privacy was a free-born Briton’s birthright and a policeman asking for your papers anathema, the mark of foreign dictatorships. We live in a different world now where even your household gadgets are capable of gathering information on you. Is privacy out of date, or a moral good that’s the basis of freedom? Can we no longer tell the state – or Big Tech – to mind their own business, and does it matter?

WITNESSES:

Kirsty Innes, Director of Technology at Labour Together
Rebecca Vincent, Interim director of Big Brother Watch
Dr Hazem Zohny, University of Oxford
Tiffany Jenkins, Cultural Historian

PANELLISTS:

Rev Dr Giles Fraser
Anne McElvoy
Lord Jonathan Sumption
Matthew Taylor

Chaired by Michael Buerk

Producer: Catherine Murray
Assistant Producer: Peter Everett
Editor: Tim Pemberton

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