Digital technology has undoubtedly brought many benefits, but it has also come with growing threats to our privacy, our families and businesses, our mental health, and our freedom. Call it digital contagion. From cancel culture to fake news, from data collection and surveillance to outright social manipulation, we are bombarded by content that insidiously influences our behavior and threatens our security and even our livelihood.

 

In this episode, Eric Kohn, Acton director of communications, sits down with Michael Matheson Miller, Acton senior research fellow, to discuss Michael’s new book, Digital Contagion: 10 Steps to Protect Your Family & Business from Intrusion, Cancel Culture, and Surveillance Capitalism.

 

Digital Contagion: 10 Steps to Protect your Family & Business from Intrusion, Cancel Culture, and Surveillance Capitalism

 

Bio | Michael Matheson Miller

 

Google and surveillance capitalism

 

The panic over Big Tech

 

Civil society in a time of pandemic

 

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