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Data privacy and informed consent

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How "informed" is our consent to have companies use our data?(Photo: D3sign / Getty Images)

Ninety-four per cent of Australians do not read privacy policies that apply to them – because who has the time? In 2008 it was estimated that if someone read every privacy policy they were presented within a single year, it would take them 76 working days to get through the pile. But the amount of data we all create and share has dramatic implications for privacy and safety. Informed consent is taken very seriously in the medical community, is it time for companies using AI and Big Data to follow suit?

Guests:
Adam Andreotta, Lecturer in Philosophy, Curtin University, Perth WA
Jacqueline Boaks, Lecturer in the School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University, Perth WA

Producer: David Rutledge

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This program was produced in partnership with the Australasian Association of Philosophy

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Philosophy, Ethics, Personal Data Collection Policy, Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence
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