Who Owns Your Digital Data? (broadcast Friday, July 31st, 2009)

From the E-book on your reader to the mp3s on your iPod to your musings on Facebook and Twitter - who owns the bits of data that make up your digital life? In this segment, Ira talks with technology columnist Randall Stross about the concept of "ownership" in the digital domain.

Guests

Randall Stross
Columnist, The New York Times "Digital Domain"
Author, "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Attempt to Organize Everything We Know" (Free Press, 2008)
Professor of Business, San Jose State University
San Jose, California

Hank Levy
Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

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Segment produced by:Christopher Intagliata

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