Surveillance Pandemic: How Tech Giants Collect & Use Personal Data for Profiling & Huge Profits

Data Security and Privacy with the Privacy Professor

Since 2018 Rebecca has invited many tech giants to explain if & how they are collecting & selling personal data to govt & other entities to profile & target subsets of populations while making huge profits. For example, one tech company reportedly made over $1.6 billion from the US federal government from 2017 – 2019. No tech company has accepted the invitations. However, Mijente, which has performed significant research into tech surveillance activities, agreed to answer questions such as: • How widespread is the collection of everyone’s personal data? • What companies are providing personal data to the tech organizations? • Why don’t the data sources notify the general population about all the entities to whom everyone’s data is being shared & used? • How is tech being used to surveil & monitor specific populations? • How have people been harmed by resulting actions from surveillance of personal data? Hear Rebecca discuss these questions and more with Jacinta González from Mijente.