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"That's recording on that camera, Tom."

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Lovely! All right.

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Hello, I'm Tom Scott, and I've got a story
for you.

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It's set in a future. Not necessarily the
future, I'm not saying this is what will happen,

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but I think there's a plausible path from
where we are now to where we will be.

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And where we will be is April 2022. Ten years'
time.

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First person we're going to meet there is
Jason Stewart.

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He's the MP for Tooting and Streatham. He
is the Minister for Social Development.

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Considered kind of a hotshot among his party

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after winning his seat in the 2020 General
Election in a very hard-fought contest.

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Also embroiled in a massive scandal, but we'll
get back to that in a minute.

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This is the 2022 iPhone. Looks about the same,

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the laws of physics dictate you still need
a battery brick,

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but what has changed is the mobile network
speed.

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5G now blankets the country in hundred-megabit
internet access,

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and data caps are a thing of the past.

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Which means that last year, Apple reused a
trademark and introduced iLife.

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It's quite similar to Your History on Microsoft
Nokia phones,

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or Droid Locker on Android. They're all descendents
of the accountability systems

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that have been used for police officers and
care workers for years now.

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With iLife, the phone is always recording
audio

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and sending it and your location to a cloud
server.

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The descendents of Siri then generate a transcript
of it.

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If you're talking to someone else with iLife,
it'll give you a text chat log,

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it's not perfect, but it's close enough.

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And if you have the new Apple headset, it's
got a couple of cameras embedded in it,

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which are always recording video when they're
connected.

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That's uploaded, analysed, and stabilised
by the same systems.

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The cable, incidentally, still gets tangled
in knots every time you put it in your bag.

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What this means is that you can say to people,

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'this is what I'm looking at right now', or
'this is what I just looked at'.

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It's all hooked up to social networks. This
is what people use it for.

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Justin Bieber's comeback tour was livestreamed
round the clock, and never went below 50,000 viewers.

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What's more important, though, is that iLife
gives you a lifelog.

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A complete history of every person you've
talked to,

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every friendly smile, every stranger you've
passed in the street.

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Your own memory is now indexed, augmented,
searchable, and your first 50 gigs of storage are free.

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And if you think that's farfetched, let's
remember Facebook is less than 10 years old.

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Twitter is only six years old, and the iPhone
itself? Five years.

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We've gone from T9 text entry to full voice
dictation in half the time we're talking about here.

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Which brings us back to Jason Stewart. Jason
is a member of 'Cheshire Boys',

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the site for old alumni of his public school.

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It runs on Disco, a fairly popular community
framework,

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that unfortunately has some fairly major security
flaws,

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including one that allows mass stealing of
passwords.

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Let's go to Russia. Natalia Orlowski is there.
She is 15, she lives in an ex-Soviet tower block

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and she doesn't get out much.

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She's running a bot that pulls in as many
of those passwords as possible.

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Not for anything particularly evil, she saw
what happened to the group

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that charged porn to Putin's credit card last
year,

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but because she can, she takes all these passwords,
she bundles them together,

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and she puts them out on a Pastebin site.
Because she can.

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It's just another big leak, there've been
loads of them before,

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and Facebook and all the networks will of
course lock everyone's account down

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and require that they change their password
again.

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But in the meantime, lots of people are looking
through this list and one person

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is going to notice 'tootingjason@gmail.com'.
His password is 'stewart9',

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that's the same password he uses everywhere,

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and someone goes 'hey! Let's log into his
iCloud!'.

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First thing they see is Apple's handy 'Is
This You?' feature.

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Jason Stewart can be seen in a few frames
of this walkby in Shoreditch.

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He wasn't recording, but his phone had his
location and facial recognition did the rest,

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and it didn't take too much effort to find
out what he was doing there.

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A few minutes later, this poison pen letter
arrives in

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every single political editor and blogger's
inbox in the country.

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The Sun eventually runs with it first, after
all the blogs have made it public knowledge.

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And Jason Stewart's career is ruined.

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Except it's not.

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Because he's not committing a crime under
UK law.

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He's divorced, so he wasn't even committing
adultery.

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It's 2022. He decides he's going to go on
the offence.

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He gets up in Parliament and says that

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'our private lives should be private, and
we must investigate these hackers'.

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And he convinces the Met to investigate, which
they do by

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filing a request with Apple for any lifelogs
that mentioned Jason Stewart

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in the hours and minutes before the leak.

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And Apple agrees, because that argument got
settled years ago

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after Blackpool.

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So that's the way it works now. Someone's
arrested, sixteen years old, so they can't be named,

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but we know they've been released on bail
on the grounds

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that they not use the internet or a computer,
which means of course

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that they can't do anything.

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And that's the precedent set. If you're in
the same area as the victim of a crime,

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or you say the same name as a victim of a
crime in the minutes or hours before,

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your lifelog will get pulled and searched
through by the police.

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And you can always close your account and
opt out, of course,

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that option is right there, but it's so damned
useful.

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And besides, all your friends use it.

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And besides, lots of companies are requiring
that their employees use it

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for liability purposes.

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And besides all that, it's not like you've
got anything to hide, right?

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I'm Tom Scott. Thank you very much.

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(APPLAUSE)