Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
This video is part of a monthly series on the securitisation of health. Watch all videos here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6JRfkdlcGYWFO9hdjtk9ISAMbrHCHfqY
Social security privatization is a long-standing global trend. But in the wake of the pandemic and through the introduction of contact tracing apps, Big Tech has gone one step further: Disguised as healthcare innovation, large corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are now set to control the very infrastructure that underlies our public health system. In this eye-opening discussion, Arun Kundnani interviews Dr Seda Gürses about the dangers of a system in which we depend on profit-oriented companies for receiving basic health services. How did we get to this point, and how can we imagine a different future?
Dr Seda Gürses is an Associate Professor at TU Delft and an affiliate at KU Leuven. Her work focuses on privacy enhancing and protective optimization technologies, privacy engineering, as well as questions around software infrastructures, social justice and political economy as they intersect with computer science. Arun Kundnani is a TNI associate and author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror.
00:00 - Power grabbing disguised as healthcare innovation
09:24 - Big Tech's Power increasing
12:25 - How are large companies taking over the infrastructure of our healthcare systems?
18:23 - The social consequences of cloud computing
22:15 - Governments and big tech regulation
28:58 - Tech companies in Kenya and the Global South
31:47 - The future of health and technology
38:07 - The dangers of technology
More information
Transnational Institute: tni.org
Programmable Infrastructures Project: https://www.tudelft.nl/tbm/over-de-faculteit/afdelingen/multi-actor-systems/research/projects/programmable-infrastructures-project#c938671
The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest: titipi.org
TITIPI Bugreport “The Long Tail of Contact Tracing”: github.com/DP-3T/documents/issues/118
Tobias Fiebig et al. paper on measurement of cloud adoption in Higher Education institutions in EU and US: arxiv.org/abs/2104.09462
Decentralized Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing (dp3t): github.com/DP-3T/documents
Editor: Josh Akinwumi
#bigtech #publichealth
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This video is part of a monthly series on the securitisation of health. Watch all videos here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6JRfkdlcGYWFO9hdjtk9ISAMbrHCHfqY
Social security privatization is a long-standing global trend. But in the wake of the pandemic and through the introduction of contact tracing apps, Big Tech has gone one step further: Disguised as healthcare innovation, large corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are now set to control the very infrastructure that underlies our public health system. In this eye-opening discussion, Arun Kundnani interviews Dr Seda Gürses about the dangers of a system in which we depend on profit-oriented companies for receiving basic health services. How did we get to this point, and how can we imagine a different future?
Dr Seda Gürses is an Associate Professor at TU Delft and an affiliate at KU Leuven. Her work focuses on privacy enhancing and protective optimization technologies, privacy engineering, as well as questions around software infrastructures, social justice and political economy as they intersect with computer science. Arun Kundnani is a TNI associate and author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror.
00:00 - Power grabbing disguised as healthcare innovation
09:24 - Big Tech's Power increasing
12:25 - How are large companies taking over the infrastructure of our healthcare systems?
18:23 - The social consequences of cloud computing
22:15 - Governments and big tech regulation
28:58 - Tech companies in Kenya and the Global South
31:47 - The future of health and technology
38:07 - The dangers of technology
More information
Transnational Institute: tni.org
Programmable Infrastructures Project: https://www.tudelft.nl/tbm/over-de-faculteit/afdelingen/multi-actor-systems/research/projects/programmable-infrastructures-project#c938671
The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest: titipi.org
TITIPI Bugreport “The Long Tail of Contact Tracing”: github.com/DP-3T/documents/issues/118
Tobias Fiebig et al. paper on measurement of cloud adoption in Higher Education institutions in EU and US: arxiv.org/abs/2104.09462
Decentralized Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing (dp3t): github.com/DP-3T/documents
Editor: Josh Akinwumi
#bigtech #publichealth
__________________________________
Visit our website: tni.org
Support our work: tni.org/en/support-tni
Sign up for our newsletter: tni.org/en/subscribe
