Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. Julia Angwin, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, covered the business and technology beat at The Wall Street Journal for thirteen years, and is now working for the independent news organization ProPublica.An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters.
And what I found is, it's not particularly effective.” Maybe we're going to find out that we're really safe.’ So I looked at all the literature about government surveillance and crime and how much does it work. She wondered whether government snooping is the price of security: “I thought, ‘Okay, let's see, maybe this is really worth it.
But what happens next? What happens next is we're not good watch dogs for democracy.
We're the first ones to seriously feel the impact of total surveillance, which means we can't protect our sources. Reporters are a prime target for internet snooping, says Angwin, "Journalists are the canary in the coal mine. She told Google good-bye, unfriended Facebook, unlinked from LinkedIn – and discovered just how difficult it is to untether the electronic umbilical cord and escape scrutiny. Julia Angwin set out to see if she could escape the dragnets that were secretly collecting even the most mundane details of her everyday life. Today’s headlines make Angwin’s findings even more relevant and powerful. Her book chronicles a cyberworld of indiscriminate tracking, where government and business are stockpiling data about us at an unprecedented pace.
Episode DetailsFirst aired: March 24, 2014.Īs Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower and Senator Dianne Feinstein, usually a staunch defender of the intelligence community, loudly and publicly speak out against the intrusion of internet spying, Bill talks with investigative reporter Julia Angwin, author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.
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