I am Hacked
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Introduction to Safe Digital Life | I am Hacked. Episode 1
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How to Keep your Money away from Hackers | I am Hacked. Episode 2
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Your Digital Footprint | I am Hacked. Episode 3
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Privacy and anonymity online | I am Hacked. Episode 4
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Cyberwarfare and state-sponsored hacking | I am Hacked. Episode 5. Cyberwarfare and state-sponsored hacking
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Ethical Hackers Fighting Cybercrime | I am Hacked. Episode 6
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Total Digital Control – Who Benefits? | I am Hacked. Episode 7
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Algorithms Decide: Digital Technology that Puts Critical Thinking on the Chopping Block | I am Hacked. Episode 8
Algorithms Decide: Digital Technology that Puts Critical Thinking on the Chopping Block | I am Hacked. Episode 8
If you think the internet is a free realm where one can access any information one’s looking for, think twice. These days top tech corporations shape almost 100% of the information space we live in by deciding which content we should or shouldn’t see. Up to 70% of the information is hidden from users – this is how most search engines are calibrated. Coupled with the phenomenon of “attention economy” - the latest approach that treats users’ attention as a scarce commodity – the internet censorship creates an unhealthy environment where “users” become “usees”, with their beliefs, interests and lifestyles manipulated and controlled.
An illusion that a person with no social media presence doesn’t exist affects how we perceive ourselves. As a result, likes and followers have become an ultimate value. In the eighth episode of I Am Hacked, tech experts, futurologists, and cyber analysts discuss if we’re slipping into a social dystopia where the line between real and virtual will be irreparably blurred.