Is your phone under surveillance? There's one big tell

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October 31, 2016 Today’s TED Talk Your smartphone is a civil rights issue 07:44 minutes · TEDSummit 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." Watch now »   Playlist of the Day Making sense of too much data It's the age of Big Data. But what, exactly, do we do with all this information? These talks explore practical, ethical -- and spectacularly visual -- ways to understand near-infinite data. Watch » 13 talks · Total run time 3:04:02 interested in science? Subscribe to TED's "Science worth knowing" newsletter. Our bi-weekly newsletter will bring you the stories, videos and links we're talking about. Subscribe » Join us on Facebook Follow us @TEDTalks

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