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Elaine Burke

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
278 total appearances

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

Like, I mean, if you're using something like that and it's not a trusted third party that's plugged into it and you don't know things about the third party that's plugged into it, you won't have a privacy policy to lean on.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

You won't have a data sharing agreement to lean on if you realise that there's any kind of scamming effects going on there.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

And that is something that can be part of these systems and the profiling of them.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

Now, I will say there's even smart TVs that are collecting a crazy amount of data on people just in their homes and taking screenshots of what they're watching on television.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

So even corporations get involved in a crazy amount of data scraping.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

Not of you, but of exactly what you're watching as you're watching it.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

Like incredibly large amounts of data.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

This was a study out of the UK just last year, I believe it was.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

And it was Samsung TVs.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

And they've only recently started to pull back these practices.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

But like the amount of data scraping that goes on and even through legitimate services is crazy.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

So this has mainly been brought to light by a BBC Panorama investigation which spoke to some women who had taken part in the show.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

And the allegations include rape and non-consensual sexual contact and very, very serious charges.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

And what's really, really damning here for Channel 4 and the production company behind Married at First Sight, CPL...

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

is that one of these women says that she actually raised concerns before the broadcast of the series and the series still went ahead as planned, as broadcast.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

But now, after the Panorama investigation, all episodes of Maths UK, I believe, are taken down from Channel 4 and they've not said if they're going to continue with the show.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

I know they're still airing.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

There's other versions of the show in the US and Australia and I have seen that that's still airing across Channel 4, E4.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

But they have...

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Week Trending: Catholicism, CMAT, & The Irish Language

in retrospect, now decided to pull things back.