Whether we know it or not, major pieces of our lives are being captured in photo, video, and data archives. From the Boston Marathon bombing to NSA leaks, recent headlines have exposed the fact that democratic societies are being watched—all the time. “The fear is that there isn’t going to be any kind of private space, [where] I can say that’s my personal space that nobody can intrude on.” says Avner Levin, director of Ryerson University’s Privacy & Cyber Crime Institute. “That’s the baffling thing about it. Everybody wants to carve out that personal space, that solitude where they can be themselves.” But what happens when we’re all being tracked, and how do we avoid the gaze of our governments’ prying eyes?
Guests
- Marvin Ammori, author, On Internet Freedom (@ammori)
- Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario (@ipcinfoprivacy)
- Kashmir Hill, privacy columnist, Forbes (@kashhill)
- Avner Levin, director, Privacy & Cyber Crime Institute, Ryerson University
Credits
- Host, producer, and writer: Ramona Pringle
- Director of photography: Lisa Lightbourn Lay
- Motion graphics: Olney Atwell
- Post supervisor: Wil Noack
- Post-production assistants: Dylan Morgan, Ian Holland
- B-roll camera: Eric Sleeth, Joey Ferguson, and Luke Nater
- Field camera: Jefferson Wright
- Editorial assistants/social media: Marie Alcober, Ishani Nath
- Content manager: Martin Waxman
- Special thanks: Charles Falzon, Gerd Hauck, Val Fox, Sheldon Levy, Ben Peto
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