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Children’s rights campaigner Pippa King asks why, with biometric technology, RFID and the ‘Internet of Things’ being rolled out in schools, the next generation is being familiarised to these technologies with little regard for the consequences of mass data-sharing. Increasingly, government agencies and corporations gather biometric data from us, covertly and overtly – this, coupled with our use of radio frequency devices, reveals ever more data about us, with immense potential for profiling and predictive behaviour modelling without our knowledge. These technologies have the capacity to erode privacy and civil liberties – we may even be the last generation that truly experiences what privacy is.
Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers [Glastonbury Symposium], 22 July 2016
Children’s rights campaigner Pippa King asks why, with biometric technology, RFID and the ‘Internet of Things’ being rolled out in schools, the next generation is being familiarised to these technologies with little regard for the consequences of mass data-sharing. Increasingly, government agencies and corporations gather biometric data from us, covertly and overtly – this, coupled with our use of radio frequency devices, reveals ever more data about us, with immense potential for profiling and predictive behaviour modelling without our knowledge. These technologies have the capacity to erode privacy and civil liberties – we may even be the last generation that truly experiences what privacy is.
Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers [Glastonbury Symposium], 22 July 2016
