Digital technology is stealing our personal data and with it our power to make free choices. Carissa Véliz, from the Institute for Ethics at the University of Oxford, explains why she thinks we need to pull the plug on the 'surveillance economy' and take back control.
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Carissa Véliz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford. Her new book is Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data.
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