Why Online Media Platforms Get You Hooked: Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science, Princeton University, Part Two

Episode 2 September 15, 2020 00:20:59
Why Online Media Platforms Get You Hooked: Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science, Princeton University, Part Two
Cookies: Tech Security & Privacy
Why Online Media Platforms Get You Hooked: Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science, Princeton University, Part Two

Sep 15 2020 | 00:20:59

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Show Notes

This is the second half of our conversation with Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science here at the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a widely recognized expert in the area of information privacy and fairness in machine learning, with a huge Twitter following and a knack for explaining tech privacy matters in terms anyone can understand. 

In this half of our conversation, he talks about why he’s so active on Twitter, but not the Facebook platforms. He talks about his research into “over-the-top” set-top devices like Roku and Amazon Fire TV, and how they provide content that looks like television content but takes your data like the Internet apps they are. He has critical things to say about Zoom, the platform so many of us are using to work from home. And he discusses one group of people who have seen their privacy actually improve as a result of social media. 

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