Smartphones have become essential in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, whether through contact tracing apps or quarantine enforcement. But as we become increasingly dependent on our technology, concerns over digital privacy are becoming more and more urgent.
In this talk, Nicole Aschoff discusses the conflicting interests of health, wealth and power in our digital age.
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Nicole Aschoff is the author of The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age and The New Prophets of Capital and is on the editorial board of Jacobin. According to author Nicole Klein “Aschoff tackles slippery subjects with confidence and subtlety, providing readers with key intellectual tools to separate fact from fiction.”
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