Is your privacy sacred?
03/08/24 • 54 min
Evolving digital technologies have supercharged our anxieties around privacy and surveillance. These concerns may feel new, but they have always existed. Privacy is central to human dignity, intimacy and wellbeing - but in a world of ever-evolving technologies - is privacy in its death throes?
Guests:
Anita Allen, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Hugh Breakey, Professor of Philosophy, Griffith University
David Vincent, Professor Emeritus, Open Universities UK, author of Privacy: A Short History
Evolving digital technologies have supercharged our anxieties around privacy and surveillance. These concerns may feel new, but they have always existed. Privacy is central to human dignity, intimacy and wellbeing - but in a world of ever-evolving technologies - is privacy in its death throes?
Guests:
Anita Allen, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Hugh Breakey, Professor of Philosophy, Griffith University
David Vincent, Professor Emeritus, Open Universities UK, author of Privacy: A Short History
Previous Episode
Why adults still need fairytales
For as long as we have had language, we have told stories - and some of the oldest stories, are fairytales. What can they teach us about the world, and why do they still appeal?
Guests:
Marguerite Johnson, classicist, historian and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland.
Tom Wright, theatre writer and Artistic Associate at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney
Michelle Smith, Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Monash University
Next Episode
Demonising the "dole bludger"
The modern welfare state emerged in Australia some 100 years ago, but it remains a subject of intense ideological, philosophical and even religious debate.
Guests:
Verity Archer, lecturer in social work, community and human services at Federation University
Eve Vincent, anthropologist at Macquarie University, author of Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia
John Falzon, Senior Fellow Inequality and Social Justice at the Per Capita think tank, former CEO of St Vincent De Paul Society Australia
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/god-forbid-315587/is-your-privacy-sacred-46296555"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to is your privacy sacred? on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy