What Teachers and Educators Should Know About Privacy and The Internet

In this hour, TED speakers explore our changing notions of privacy, the consequences, and whether privacy will soon be a relic of the past.

'Data brokers' have increasing access to Americans’ personal info -- a multibillion-dollar industry that the government fears invades privacy

What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code -- a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.

How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Kindle edition by Glenn Greenwald. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Kindle edition by Glenn Greenwald. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

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As facial recognition systems improve, they will get better at identifying people at different ages, even very young children.

The Internet has transformed the front lines of war, and it's leaving governments behind. As security analyst Rodrigo Bijou shows, modern conflict is being waged online between non-state groups, activists and private corporations, and the digital landscape is proving to be fertile ground for the recruitment and radicalization of terrorists. Meanwhile, draconian surveillance programs are ripe for exploitation. Bijou urges governments to end mass surveillance programs and shut 'backdoors' -- and he makes a bold call for individuals to step up.