Charles Arthur (@CharlesArthur) is a former technology editor of the Guardian and the author of Cyber Wars: Hacks That Shocked the Business World covering some of the world’s biggest cyber attacks. He also played a large role in the UK’s Free Our Data campaign to persuade the government to make non-personal government data available for free reuse.
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Thoughts on data-powered totalitarianism
- A deeper dive into social media’s ability to influence us, and democracy
- How data privacy and surveillance have changed in the last ten years
- Why open-sourcing government data is a good thing
- How mission-driven journalism both helps and hurts the world
- A bold proposal to improve democratic outcomes
- How to avoid heading towards 1984
- Just how bad is the surveillance economy today
- Which of the tech giants Charles is most worried about and why
- Charles thoughts on COVID contact tracing
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