This week's theme is privacy — the most vexing issue of the Digital Age. As we have discussed, part of the problem is the information we voluntarily put online, and part of the problem is how companies like Facebook use that information. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Technology is wonderful — until it is turned against us. When you discover your privacy has been violated, it can feel frightening, humiliating, degrading, maddening, depressing. Unfortunately, today's technologies enable people, corporations and governments to violate our privacy on a massive scale . . . around the clock, 365 days of the year.
WATCH The TED Talk videos above. All are in the five-minute range.
EXPLORE More TED Talks searching for the term "privacy," like the ones below.
FREAK OUT About what you just learned about privacy.
BLOG #4 Write a regular post about issues raised in the videos you watched.
- How do these issues affect you? You friends and family?
- What should the government be doing about these issues?
- What can we do to protect ourselves from invasions of our privacy?
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