Episode 40: Please Ask Permission Before Sharing with Dr. Maritza Johnson
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This week on Sweat the Details, we welcomed Dr. Maritza Johnson, who aims to make it easier for people to handle the security and privacy decisions they face in their daily lives. She completed her PhD in computer science at Columbia University and wrote her dissertation on the usability of Facebook privacy settings.
We talked about privacy, security, the difference between the two, smart homes and smart TVs, and the need for us all to be aware and curious about the technology that has fast become part of most of our daily lives.
- What’s the difference between security and privacy?
- Facial recognition and its ubiquity
- Its use to track protestors
- Facebook and the responsibility to police the platform
- Smart homes - thermostats, doorbells, baby monitors, Alexa, Ring
- How Smart TVs track us
- Consumer Reports on Smart TVs
- What regulations in the US protect users with respect to privacy?
- Electronic Frontier Foundations’ privacy guide
- Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab
- That story about Target’s ad tracking in 2012
- 'People You May Know:' A Controversial Facebook Feature's 10-Year History
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