Think Again: Keith Whelpley on Digital Surveillance and Surveillance Capitalism

Prompted by a recent program in which Bob Diven and Deidra Schaub shared their experience of terminating their social media accounts, Keith Whelpley joins us today to explore broader considerations of digital surveillance in general. This conversation touches on a few of the profound influences that unchecked digital surveillance has upon our information access. We look at the influences upon our decision making, our personal freedom, our democracy, our economic structures and our individual and collective psyches. We briefly touch on artificial intelligence, social media, algorithms, unauthorized eavesdropping through our devices, and the harvesting, storing and selling of our personal data. The conversation also points to some of the efforts being made to rein in and redirect what seems like a wild west period of runaway technologies.

For more information

Is Alexa Listening?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/amazon-alexa-conversation-shared-echo.html

Center for Humane Technology
https://www.humanetech.com/

Tristan Harris - SXSW Presentation 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RlhhRfREa0

Shoshana Zuboff - Surveillance Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw