Privacy in America (one hour book overview)

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This episode provides a one-hour overview of Mitch Jackson's book on privacy issues in America, highlighting the pervasive surveillance and data collection faced by individuals.

PRIVACY IN AMERICA- What Every American Needs to Know (one hour summary of Mitch Jackson's new book) Every day, ordinary Americans surrender intimate details of their lives without realizing it. Their phones broadcast where they sleep, worship, and seek medical care. Their cars report how they drive, where they stop, and whether they wear a seatbelt. Their smart speakers and televisions record what they say and watch inside their own homes. Data brokers package these details into dossiers and sell them to advertisers, insurers, scammers, and even government agencies that would otherwise need a warrant to obtain the same information. Artificial intelligence has made the crisis worse on every front. Deepfake voice clones now fool family members and bank representatives. AI-powered bots run autonomous romance and financial scams at industrial scale, and the very chatbots people confide in collect and train on those private conversations by default. Facial recognition systems capture biometric data that can never be changed if stolen. Fitness trackers feed health information to companies that HIPAA was never designed to regulate. Period-tracking apps generate reproductive data that…

People in this episode

Host: Mitch Jackson

Topics covered

• privacy
• data security
• artificial intelligence
• surveillance
• consumer rights

Keywords

• privacy
• data brokers
• surveillance
• artificial intelligence
• deepfake
• biometric data
• DNA testing
• children's data
• health information

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HIPAA

Books & works: PRIVACY IN AMERICA- What Every American Needs to Know

Places: America

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