Selfies as a totalitarian tool

“No totalitarian government has ever created a better tool for monitoring than the selfie.” This observation, which is so stunningly obvious that you wonder why you never thought of it, is made by Tim Sutcliffe, host of the BBC’s Start the Week podcast, during an episode that can be loosely described as maintaining privacy in the digital age. Yes, it’s a clichéd topic, but this is the BBC so the discussion is made fresh by Sutcliffe’s expert guests, who include Oxford Institute director Helen Margetts, co-author of Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action and financial journalist Gillian Tett, […]