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S5, E215 - Click, Track, Share: Privacy, What's That? · Privacy Please

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: all righty then.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of privacy.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Please.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: I'm your host, cameron ivy, and I got a news here for you.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Buckle up buttercups, because this is ace ventura privacy detective, and I'm going to take you on a wild ride through the jungle of digital surveillance.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: So forget privacy.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Young internet users want to be tracked, apparently.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Listen, you got to know your etiquette if you keep tabs on friends and family.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Now, ladies and gentlemen, credit goes to Elaine Moore for this snooptastic scoop.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: I'll make sure to share the link in the show notes.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Now shall we get rolling?
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Your handy dandy smartphone is like a treasure chest of location data.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: It can guide your food delivery, help you find your scrumptious nearby eatery, but beware, it can also pinpoint your every move with laser precision.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Yikes, this technology might sound like a stalker's dream, but it's often wrapped up in a sweet candy coating of convenience.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about rethinking our online surveillance.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Okay To track or not?
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: To track?
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: What level of online spying is A-okay?
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: Many of you might shout zero, zilch, nada.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Privacy warriors out there are battling to limit data peeping, and hey, laptops are now coming with their own peekaboo blockers for webcams.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Microsoft even ditched a feature that snapped PC screenshots every five seconds for AI training, but apps like Life 360 are still hot on the scene.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Whoa Now generational differences to track or to crack and I'm not talking about your mama's back, okay, the old age divide, or the age-old divide as they say.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Folks like Moy and my buddies in the fabulous 40s shudder at the idea of being tracked.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Heck, some of them didn't even know it was an option.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: One pal quipped that being a dot on someone's map feels straight out of a 1984 spooky.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: But the younger crowd, they're chill with it, man, they're cool.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: She said that, uh, my 29 year old cousin proudly sports his girlfriend's location at his phone's lock screen.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: It's like a digital scrutiny blanket for them.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: Not a, not a horror film scenery scenario.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: Now, realistic view on privacy.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: Don't think now.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: Don't think our young whisper wait now.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Don't think our young whippersnappers are blind to privacy.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: They're keenly aware that using a smartphone with all the bells and whistles means that their location is already being tracked.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: If Big Brother already knows, why not share it with your truestiest mates?
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: Trustiest mates, trustiest mates, trustiest mates.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Why not share it with your truestiest mates?
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Why not share it with your truestiest mates?
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Even flipping off tracking features might not snuff out the snooping.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Google coughed up $93 million to settle claims it's hoarded location data.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: Even folks turned off tracking.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: Double yikes, oh boy, oh boy.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: History of location sharing.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Um, it didn't start yesterday, so let's not, let's not, uh, think that it just began.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, location sharing has been around for I don't know donkey years.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Apple's find my app debuted in 1928.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: I'm lying, it was 2010.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, anyways.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: First as a lost phone hunter, then as a friend finder.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: Uh, that's a trademark, thanks, uh.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: Now facebook and snapchat got in on all fun action, making tracking feel more like a friendly game with cute avatars.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: So do they play nice or do they pay the price?
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: If you're going to join the tracking party, play by the rules.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: It's alright to make sure a buddy gets home safe, but don't go pulling a surprise pop-in.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: Only share your deets with your inner circle Now, it's not the new bloke you just met at the cafe.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Turning off location sharing can feel as dramatic as a breakup.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, breakups.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Those are not good.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: Those are not good.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: That's a little more like the Grinch, anyways, she states.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: When I quizzed my cousin on tracking manners, he said it's not like phone call adequate.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, they track anyway, they track away, but barely ever yak on the phone.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: Benefits and risks of location tracking.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Location tracking can be a lifesaver, especially for the elderly and the kiddos, but be careful, because it might normalize data sharing to a point where you're handling it over to everyone, sharing to a point where you're handling it over to everyone, even your boss or the government agency.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: And get this.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: A University of California, san Diego, study revealed that parents use tracking for safety but knowing they were being tracked, changed kids' behaviors.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: They were being tracked, changed kids' behaviors.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: What Now most of us are using?
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: Let's run that back for us.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Most of us are snug as a bug in a rug, thinking the internet watches our every move, but tracking each other, we might just be giving this surveillance system more juice to chew on or suckle at.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: Yummy, alrighty then remember, folks, the internet's jungle's a wild one.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Stay savvy, stay safe and keep those data eyes wide open.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Let me see those peepers now.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: All right, cameron ivy over and out.