I was a district sales manager for intermax it's a company that does wire transfers between the states in South America my territory included from Central California all the way to the coast of California and then all the way up to Santa Cruz so it's quite a bit to cover the company wanted to implement a new program where they had an app downloaded onto the iPhones and this app was supposed to track everywhere we were at um to the very smallest detail using her iPhone's built-in GPS the app tracked Mna wherever she went and kept track
of how long she stayed in one place her employers even knew how fast she was driving and she wasn't allowed to turn it off they were monitoring all the time so I felt I don't know exposed all the time I never said no to office hours or work hours but clearly you're tracking this not only are you tracking it but you're recording it and so why are you keeping this data how much data do you have on me and what are you going to do with it all those things were just scary so myself and
another coworker decided not to use this app then we're immediately terminated Mna filed a lawsuit against her employer I was surprised by the brazenness that occurred here I'm not surprised that an employer would try to track its employees and we know uh from past experience that our employers take a lot of liberties with our privacy rights and they tell us sometimes on our way in the door you're on our time you're on our machines uh we have a right to look at what you're doing but that was before the internet invaded our workplaces it's a
very different scenario where you have people out in the field and especially when we're using the same device for work as well as for personal use where you're monitoring what they're doing on their breaks and after their hours that feels creepy to me and I think it felt creepy to Mna so if our bosses and Google and our government are all trying to track US what are we supposed to do just throw out our smartphones and disconnect from the internet entirely let's face it that's never really going to happen so the other extreme is we
could throw privacy completely out the window think it's hard to imagine well we don't have to welcome to songo South Korea its developers call it a city of the future before 2001 all of this was underwater to build songo the planners first had to reclaim 1500 Acres from the Yellow Sea if you were expecting flying autonomous cars and moving roadways well you won't find them here what you will find is the country's tallest skyscraper longest bridge and most importantly interconnectivity because songo was built literally from the ground up to be a smart City because it
was built from scratch it was easy to integrate a network of sensors throughout the city and it's just as easy to forget that in songo your being watched this is the integrated operations center here operators can monitor all the vital functions of the city everything from traffic weather conditions public transit and emergency response to Billboards energy usage and even waste disposal this room is the city's brain traffic isn't just monitored from here it's actually controlled operators can control the timing of the lights and use signage to rroo the flow of traffic the system has a
database for every license plate in the country it knows every car in songo security cameras throughout the city act like an omni present police force watching for and Reporting suspicious activity in real time Brian Bailey is a product manager at Samsung biologistics he moved his family to sdo back in 2014 excited about we've lived several places uh sdo is the safest city that we have ever lived in uh we feel extremely safe with our children letting them go around the city uh without supervision and not have to worry about their safety there are clear advantages
to living in a city of the future uh the internet is everywhere so anywhere you go you can get very good Wi-Fi signal uh the buses have it the Subways have it all the the coffee shops and restaurants and stores have it so being able to uh access the internet is is very very convenient here but in Sano privacy is pretty much non-existent you can't do anything without being on camera here I've heard that in that Center they can put like a little dot on you on the camera and they can follow you back for
hours throughout s for real they can follow you around for hours they just by with facial recognition software figure out where you are and how do you feel about that we just feel spied everywhere we go you you feel spied on yeah just I'm walking down the street there are eyes everywhere you can't get away with anything no not anymore when you're in s do do you ever think about the cameras that are filming you saying that you don't care about privacy because you've got nothing to hide it's no different than saying you don't care
about freedom of speech because you've got nothing to say that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of Rights and what privacy really is what it's for privacy isn't about having something to hide privacy is about having something to protect and that's a free and open society that thing is Liberty one thing we learned from Edward Snowden is that our uh government has a rapacious appetite for data including data about American citizens and that's the United States which is a sophisticated democracy people around the world have even less protection than that from their government so what
can happen if you forget that the little phone in your pocket is also a tracking [Music] device in 2014 protesters in Kiev found out after a clash with police demonstrated ERS in the area received an ominous text message dear subscriber you have been registered as a participant in a mass disturbance
