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MercatorNet: The spy in your pocket

MercatorNet: The spy in your pocket

The spy in your pocket



The spy in your pocket

A philosopher describes how our privacy is threatened by the continuing encroachment of technology.
Michael Cook | Sep 23 2016 | comment 

That smartphone in your pocket is spying on your for … who knows? But it is beaming out information which can be vacuumed up by governments, marketers, or even criminals. We live in a world where our strolls are tracked by CCTV, our travel by smartphones, and our interests by Google and Facebook. But privacy is a human right; we need to defend it, says Carissa Véliz, a Spanish doctoral student at the University of Oxford. A fascinating conversation. Well worth watching. 


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Ten years ago Benedict XVI delivered what Sam Gregg describes as "one of this century’s most important speeches", an address in the German university town of Regensburg about Islam, secularism and reason. It caused a big kerfuffle at the time, with riots across the Muslim world and a few deaths, but hardly anyone seems to have read it, perhaps because it mentioned too many Dead White Males. 
However, as Gregg points out, Benedict "managed to identify the inner pathology that is corroding much of the world, how this malignancy emerged, and what can be done to address it." I dare say that you could use his analysis to explain the sudden rise of same-sex marriage and transgenderism. It's a terrific piece. Read it below. 


Michael Cook 
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