What Your Phone Knows
Let's get metadata...what your smartphone is tracking and why it matters.
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Why the Paradox
The Challenges
We'll send you 5 newsletters. Each includes tips and a short podcast explaining the science, psychology, and tech behind that day's challenge. Hear a preview.
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Day 1
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Day 2
The Search for Your Identity
How algorithms see us, sell us, and then sell TO us.
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Day 3
Something to Hide
Reclaiming your private parts...and why Google needed an in-house philosopher.
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Day 4
Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity
The digital gaze, our psyche, and what happens when we know we're being watched.
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Day 5
Your Personal Terms of Service
Defining your acceptable conditions for living the good life online.
The Quiz
Discover your privacy personality
Are you a Believer, Realist, or Shrugger?
Here Is What We Learned
In the final episode, we talk through the results, and look to the future of privacy. With Michal Kosinski, creator of Apply Magic Sauce, and Solon Barocas, who studies the ethics of machine learning at Microsoft Research. Plus, reports from our listeners on the good, the bad and the ugly of their digital data.
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Note to Self is WNYC's tech show about being human.
Join host Manoush Zomorodi for your weekly reminder to question everything.