question number one do you know what
your smartphone is doing while you're
asleep
Jeffry father a British journalist
wanted to find out so in the morning I
checked the reports for his own
smartphone and it brought very
surprising results 11:43 bein a company
called amplitude got Jeffrey's phone
number email and exact location 358 a.m.
another company called up boy received
digital fingerprint of his phone 625 m a
tracker called demodex find a way to
identify Jeffress phone and an
application called yep was checking
Geoffrey's IP address every five minutes
in a single week Jeffrey found 5400
trackers in his own smartphone and
mostly from application trackers or
everywhere every time you go on a
website they are web trackers they are
present Android portion of your time of
navigation
they will analyze your behavior online a
new Google searches so your searches not
only tell Google but also third parties
that you never heard about so why is
your smartphone sending data to company
that you never heard about why is your
data leaving your phone what is your
data useful and why don't we know about
it and why don't we care and I hope you
like my question number one because I
have four more questions for you that my
chain to behavior towards data question
number two who do you think knows you
best
your parents the government's or Google
I'm gonna give you a clue is not your
parents we all know the answer
largest Internet company or the biggest
data collector in the world history but
let me first speak about the
government's so I can illustrate to you
the value of data WikiLeaks
Snowden we all heard scandals about
communication being monitored by
government using surveillance software
which collect data about individuals
here is a scoop for you I was managing
one of the companies pointed out by
WikiLeaks and Snowden my job is to sell
software to government and secret
services same data which are collected
by big Internet companies same software
which collect data about you so do I
know the value of data yes do I know a
lot about surveillance and profiling yes
am I scared of being monitored by
governments mainly not but let's be
honest it depends on the government am I
scared of being monitored by big
companies big yes surveillance software
assist the government in the RS of the
criminals from pedophile to terrorist
from drug dealers to murderer and nobody
is complaining about the crimes that
have been prevented or the criminals
that have been arrested thanks to those
soft software the criminals have been
arrested thank to the data trail data is
gold for the police all around the world
but if in the wrong hand the software
which collect data about individuals can
become a weapon a dangerous weapon a
lack of ethics and regulation can lead
to catastrophic scenarios few years ago
a surveillance software was sold to a
country and the government used it to
identify the students arrest them and
talk to them as a software dealer what
stopped me from selling to dictators or
mafia how do I know that the government
will use my software fairly is the same
for Internet companies how do I know
that they will use your data fairly we
need ethics and regulation with our data
from our international institution for
both government and Internet companies
when I speak about my job here are the
comments I get the most have you ever
spied on your boyfriend is what's up
safe is it ok if I use a VPN anyway I
don't care I have nothing to hide so
this leads to my question number three
why are you a paradox why would you use
a VPN if you have nothing to hide
why do you think you have nothing to
hide you will lock your door to protect
yourself physically but you will not do
anything about your virtual security
even if cyber criminality is the
fastest-growing crime in the world you
are willing to give your DNA what your
voice sounds like your fingerprint in
exchange of free easy and enjoyable
services 80% of you are concerned about
personal information being viewed but
only 10% of you will read the privacy
agreement online the security experts
Mikko opponents set out a free Wi-Fi
hotspot in the middle of London to prove
this point and he buried in the terms
and condition in exchange of Wi-Fi the
recipient agrees that they will assign
to us their firstborn child for a
duration of eternity the first hour six
people signed up but let's be honest we
all know the value of data we all know
the danger of internet but we need
internet we are dependent on Internet
switching off on phone even for a few
hours could give us anxiety Internet
companies had created a society which
demand us to participate in the system
it has become a reflex for us to go on
Google every time a question pops into
your head
so not only Google knows your name where
you live who your friends are
they also know your plans what you
thinking and you deepest and darkest
secrets if you googled alcoholic
anonymous drug tax fraud online dating
it's known and recorded some of you will
tell me I have nothing to hide I have
nothing to hide could not only affect
your identity and your freedom but it
can also take you to the other side of
the law 66% of this room has already
committed a crime you probably already
illegally downloaded movies books music
and even if you don't anymore it's
recorded internet remembers and yes
downloading movies is a crime last year
a woman in Minnesota was fined two
million dollars for illegal download
before the Second World War the city of
Amsterdam was collecting records about
the citizen thinking that knowing them
better they will help them better but
when the Nazi came
those records were more than useful to
identify the Jewish citizen recalls
Internet company records everything you
can't make mistakes online and this
happened even to celebrities Kevin Hart
the IIST paid comedian in us was pull
out of the Oscar ceremony because three
years prior he posted an insensitive
comments about the LGBT community
nobody is off-limits another example
Facebook knows how satisfied with your
life you are whether you are emotionally
stable or not it even knows when your
relationship is going south and this is
only based on the data analytics of the
likes that you have clicked coverage
analytical influence elections because
of the Facebook Likes on the other end
don't think that data will understand
you they know you but they don't
understand you and this is how it works
you will go on a website a real estate
website to buy a property in Dubai then
you will visit online Indian Indian
online dating website and then you will
go and play video games the data will
detect that you have a decent salary
that you can afford a house that your
Indian that you are single and that you
are a geek that might be you but there
is a chance that is not you maybe you
don't plan to buy a house maybe you're
just helping a friend maybe you're not
Indian maybe you're not even single your
profile is based on assumption and the
collection of random facts about you
does not collect to a firm understanding
of who you are
so this leads to my question number four
why big Internet companies shouldn't
collect data about me I'm gonna give you
a number four point 1 billion for point
1 billion is the number of records
compromised only for the first six
months of 2019 few months ago
the DNA service is testing my heritage
announced that hackers had reached more
than 92 million of its accounts so if
your potential disease becomes public do
you think you will get in health
insurance one day you might apply for a
loan and get rejected because deep in
the corporate system there is a data
about you that you might be likely to
have Alzheimer and maybe die before you
will repair the loan so before you argue
that you have nothing to hide without
privacy there is no freedom privacy is
your intimacy is when you can be
yourself when you can be alone when you
can be naked without being judge We
Trust Facebook Google Instagram with our
data and with our lives and we don't
have any second for using them we
depends on those in that internet
companies and our choice ability is
impacted we have the choice to turn off
our phone but we would really make that
choice we need internet and phones to
interact with others to work with others
we don't have time to read the privacy
agreements so this leads to my final
question question number five what shall
you do then you can stop and limit your
social sharing stop posting on Facebook
Twitter Instagram until our privacy
rights of fully protected and regulated
stop putting picture of your holidays
that can tell so much about your agenda
and can become dangerous for your
physical security don't forget that
everything you do online is recorded
your tweets of public property if you
were resist and you change your
political view its recorded stop putting
your real name online everywhere last
time I was on a train to Normandy and I
was looking for Wi-Fi and I realized
that the passenger next to me put her
real name on the odd spot it took me
three seconds to google her name and
find a LinkedIn or Instagram or job or
name of friends our city 3 seconds
that's the perfect way to initiate the
curiosity of a stalker just because she
put our real name on the odd spot stop
using search engine which doesn't
respect your privacy rights every time
you go on a website check if there are
web trackers
I would like Apple and Google to label
when they are using third-party trackers
I know the value of data and I don't
want mine in any and when it doesn't
need to be I think it's good that people
are critical towards government but it
should be the same towards big Internet
companies Edward Snowden said arguing
that you don't care to the right to
privacy because you have nothing to hide
is no different than saying you don't
care about free speech because you have
nothing to say and I agree even if
probably if he probably dislikes me
without privacy you come behave as you
want to behave and be yourself
so let's fight for our privacy right
let's make internet safer let's ask for
more transparency I want to know which
data is collected about me and what they
are used for let's find the right
balance between privacy and safety and
keep using those internet services after
I read this talk to my friend he told me
that he understand fully the importance
of data and privacy but he will not
change his behavior online I told him
that this talk is for people like him
well who paradoxically understand the
importance of privacy but we not changed
this their behavior and we stay blind
about the situation so if you feel that
you are like him please at least change
your password every three months thank
you
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