Season 1 – Podcast 3: Privacy & Surveillance In A Big Data Age With Kenneth Cukier

March 8, 2023
3:49 pm

In this episode, I got to speak with Ken Cukier. Ken is an award winning journalist, a book author and a keynote speaker. He’s the coauthor of Big Data: A Revolution That Transforms How We Live, Work, and Think with Viktor Mayer-Schnberger. It was a New York Times bestseller and translated into over 20 languages and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. It won the National Library of Chinas Wenjin Book Award and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year. Kenn co-authored a follow-on book, called “Learning with Big Data : The Future of Education”. I got the chance to speak to Kenn about big data and whether the technologies are going to be used for surveillance or for good.

Follow Kenn on Twitter
https://twitter.com/kncukier

Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, coauthored with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
https://amzn.to/3gTKfYC

Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:48 Kenn Cukier’s Introduction

1:06 Artificial Intelligence

2:09 Digital Technologies

3:01 Being Manipulated

3:26 Raw Data

4:30 Retina Scans & Data

5:22 The Benefits That AI Can Bring Society

5:55 State Surveillance

6:35 Benefits of Data

7:20 Privacy & Technology

7:54 Control

8:23 End

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