To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Sum of Our Data


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Every click on your computer, every swipe on your smartphone, leaves a data trail. Information about who you are, what you do, who you love, the state of your mind and body… so much data about you, expanding day by day in the digital clouds. The question is—do you care? Would owning your data, or having more digital privacy, make life better? And what happens to all that data when you die?

Original Air Date: November 22, 2024

Interviews In This Hour:
A former child test subject seeks the data that shaped her lifeIn an age of surveillance, do you still care about your privacy?When you die, what will happen to your data?

Guests:
Susannah Breslin, Lowry Pressly, Carl Öhman


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