Google knows what information you’re looking for, Amazon knows what book you should read next, and Facebook can suggest new friends you should connect with. But is there a catch to all of this convenience? “People will trade away their privacy for convenience,” says author, lawyer, and First Amendment scholar Marvin Ammori, a fellow of the New America Foundation. “Just a few companies have control over the content we access, the views we see, the people we communicate with.”
Guests
- Marvin Ammori, author, On Internet Freedom (@ammori)
- Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario (@ipcinfoprivacy)
- Kashmir Hill, privacy columnist, Forbes (@kashhill)
- Jules Polonetsky, director, Future of Privacy Forum (@JulesPolonetsky)
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
RdigitaLIFE is an independent project, based at Toronto’s Ryerson University, that explores human interactions with technology.
