Your smartphone is a civil rights issue

Title:
Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
Speaker:
Christopher Soghoian
Description:

The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us to pay attention to a growing digital security divide. "If the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem," he says. "It's not just a cybersecurity problem -- it's a civil rights problem."

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
07:44
Format: HTML5
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