Aspen Ideas Festival Broadcasts

00000176-6d2a-dc2f-ad76-6d2a4efd0000The Aspen Ideas Festival is an annual week and a half long gathering that offers a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars, discussions and events that bring together vibrant intellectual exchange. Aspen Public Radio is broadcasting several of the events. If you miss it live, you can listen to them here. To check the schedule of live broadcasts this week, click here.

Personal privacy front and center at Ideas Fest

Aspen Public Radio

Published June 28, 2017 at 4:54 PM MDT

Left to right: Manoush Zomorodi, Julia Angwin and Anil Dash speak about how our personal data is being collected, analyzed and stored without our consent.

One of the tracks at this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival is “Reimagining the Internet”. News Director Carolyn Sackariason attended two sessions this week that were focused on living in a surveillance economy, and how to protect our personal information.

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Living in the Surveillance Economy: From smartphones transmitting our location to ads following us as we browse the web to home appliances and devices watching us in our own homes, we live in an age of ubiquitous surveillance. And our data is not our own. How should big companies be accountable? What are our rights? And what should our rights be? Is monetized data extraction — also known as surveillance capitalism — causing such concentrations of power as to threaten our core values? Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked, and Anita Allen, an expert on privacy law and philosophy, discuss the thorny issues of connectivity with Julia Angwin, author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.

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The Privacy Paradox: We love the convenience of living online. But we want more control over where our personal information goes and who can see it. Manoush Zomorodi, creator of the Privacy Paradox experiment on WNYC’s “Note to Self,” along with ProPublica senior reporter Julia Angwin and tech entrepreneur and writer Anil Dash, illuminate practical ways to reign in control of your personal data.