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TED Talks: Season 2016

2016x207 Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
TV-PG

  • 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us to pay attention to a growing digital security divide. "If the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem," he says. "It's not just a cybersecurity problem -- it's a civil rights problem."
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