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May 2018
55m 59s

Meet the Personal Data Superheroes - GDP...

BBC Radio
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Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave take a deep dive into our data.

They discuss the implication of personal data rights in everything from city planning to medicine to human rights. You’ll hear from: Paul-Olivier Dehaye, who testified in the Cambridge Analytica case; Ravi Naik, the solicitor from ITN Solicitors taking on Cambridge Analytica; Martha Lane Fox CBE, founder of the think tank Doteveryone; digital sociologist and strategist Lisa Talia Moretti; Francesca Bria, the chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer for the City of Barcelona; Eric Schadt, Founder and CEO of Sema4 and expert in big data and medicine; Judith Deportail, data journalist; Jamie Bartlett, author of 'People vs Tech' and Director for The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos; Michael Veale, researcher in responsible public sector machine learning at University College London; and Edina Harbinja, senior lecturer in law, University of Hertfordshire.

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