Forgotten in the Digital Age: Legal Insights on Privacy

The 21st century can be characterized by the rise of technology, and therefore the human race has started the sociological processes of adapting itself  to this variable which has gotten added on to the equation termed as human life. Like every time period which has witnessed momentous political, sociological or economic changes, this era too will, and has already started to create novice laws, economic relationships, and human reactions, to accommodate the digital realm.  However, one significant difference between today’s digital age and previous years of change, is that the current era is changing at a pace faster than ever seen before, and therefore the clock of adaptation is ticking at too fast a pace for an equal distribution of benefits, mitigative strategies and positive behavioral modification to homogeneously occur.  Hence, this podcast aims to unravel and educate viewers on important terms like Privacy, Big Data and Surveillance Capitalism, which are steadily becoming the cornerstones of human society. Technology's relationship with law and an analysis of the preparedness of global legal systems to tackle the digital realm will also be done, in order to spread awareness about crucial characteristics of the coming ages.