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Big tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google are swimming in an absolute ocean of our private data. In any ways, we have been worn down and lulled into a sense of helplessness about it. They track our searches, to sell us ads; they track our movement, to aggregate our location data; they track our purchases, sharing them with God knows who. But it’s more than that. Many tech companies share info about us with us with law enforcement agencies and other questionable actors, oftentimes without a warrant or our explicit consent. We tacitly agree to all this, when we accept the Terms of Service for online platforms, but who ever actually reads those? Is that really informed consent?
This is something I have been thinking a lot about lately, so I hollered at Bill Fitzgerald. Bill is a a former teacher an online privacy activist. We welcomed him on the show to help us all think about how to reduce our digital data footprint.
Cast of Characters
Going Further
The Nerd Farmer Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts and is brought to you by Libro FM
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Big tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google are swimming in an absolute ocean of our private data. In any ways, we have been worn down and lulled into a sense of helplessness about it. They track our searches, to sell us ads; they track our movement, to aggregate our location data; they track our purchases, sharing them with God knows who. But it’s more than that. Many tech companies share info about us with us with law enforcement agencies and other questionable actors, oftentimes without a warrant or our explicit consent. We tacitly agree to all this, when we accept the Terms of Service for online platforms, but who ever actually reads those? Is that really informed consent?
This is something I have been thinking a lot about lately, so I hollered at Bill Fitzgerald. Bill is a a former teacher an online privacy activist. We welcomed him on the show to help us all think about how to reduce our digital data footprint.
Cast of Characters
Going Further
The Nerd Farmer Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts and is brought to you by Libro FM
Please consider supporting the podcast by joining Channel 253 as a member

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