Privacy and Digital Issues: Streaming Video

Four Corners explores the world of Facebook and how your data is being mined to drive the huge success of the social media giant. Reporter Peter Greste examines the Facebook business model and shows why your private life is making the company billions.The program investigates how Facebook has the ability to track much of your browsing history, even when you're not logged on, and even if you aren't a member of the social network. It also reveals how the methods used to deliver targeted advertising also drives what 'news' appears in your Facebook feed, and why you are unlikely to see anything that challenges your world view. 2017

A police officer places a GPS device on a suspected drug dealer's car to trace his whereabouts and build a case against him. A popular retail store uses predictive analytics to send pregnancy-related advertising to a teenager who has yet to tell her parents about her condition. A Kentucky man shoots down a neighbor's drone that is flying over his private property.

This program shows you how the advent of big data has given corporate marketers, social media companies and politicians the ability to hack your auto-pilot system in shocking new ways. And you’ll see why the survival of democracy itself is at stake and how you can protect it.

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Frankie and her expert team of troll trackers meet with a group of celebrities and ordinary citizens to track down the cyber-bullies and cyber-stalkers that have continued to fill their lives with anguish. Using the latest surveillance technology, the team track down the trolls, who until this point have had the luxury of hiding behind their screens, to expose them in a dramatic face-to-face confrontation.

Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around the clock access to the convenience of the digital world. Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences, and social media posting? Don't we care about our privacy anymore?

In this program, attorney and technologist Peter Vogel discusses free speech and Internet privacy. By watching this report, viewers will gain valuable insight and understanding into these critical issues of the day.

Big data can be a big threat to privacy. Learn how surveillance cameras, smart phones, and Internet use provide a wealth of opportunities for tracking specific individuals. Examine privacy issues raised by corporate and government activity, and review what you can do to lead a more secure life.

Do you have a secret that no one else knows? What about Apple, Google, Facebook, Verizon, or Uber? Are you sure they don't know your secret? Digital data—emails, text messages, phone records, location markers, web searches—contain traces of almost every secret. They also contain traces of almost every crime. Tech companies may promise to protect people's data from prying eyes, but should that promise yield to law enforcement and national security? The U.S. Constitution doesn't contain the word "privacy," but the Fourth Amendment guarantees people's "right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Does new technology threaten this right?