About this episode

Baroness Beeban Kidron discusses the digital dangers facing children and the need for online safety standards with host Carl Miller.

Filmmaker and activist Baroness Beeban Kidron has been warning of the digital dangers facing young people for over a decade, and has played a central role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world. In this episode, she talks to Carl Miller about the technologies designed to capture our attention and the algorithms that can quickly leave children exposed to harmful content. They discuss the unchecked power of Big Tech, as powerful companies avoid rules and regulations, and capture governments that are meant to protect us. But the problem is not the technology itself, but what we’ve allowed it to come. They explore what positive change could look like, and how we can collectively impose democratic pressure to ensure we make safe the technology that will be alongside us now, and in the future.  Baroness Beeban Kidron is a member of the UK’s House of Lords and a former film director. Her new book, Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back is available in bookstores and online now.  Carl Miller is an author and researcher at Demos. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our…

People in this episode

Host: Carl Miller

Guest: Baroness Beeban Kidron

Topics covered

• internet safety
• children
• Big Tech
• online privacy
• digital dangers
• democratic pressure

Keywords

• internet safety
• children
• Big Tech
• online privacy
• digital dangers
• algorithms
• democratic pressure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Demos

Books & works: Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back

Places: UK

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