Tech: What Self-surveillance Means For You And Our Society

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Tech: What Self-surveillance Means For You And Our Society

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Smart phones. Smart cars. Smart speakers. Web browsers. Social media. Artificial Intelligence.

Technologies we rely on every day generate a massive amount of information about what we do, where we go, what we like, and who we are. That data can make life very convenient — your rideshare app knows where you want go before you enter an address, you only see ads for products you’re already interested in buying, videos on subjects you enjoy are already auto-populated in your feed.

But at what cost? What’s the tradeoff?

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is a professor of law at the George Washington University School of Law and a national surveillance expert. He says that the rise of the self-surveillance state has big ramifications for Americans’ personal freedoms and America’s democratic values.

We sit down with him to talk about how are data is being used against us and about his books, “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.”

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