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Made to Measure - Creating a Digital Doppelganger

September 15, 2023

Is it possible to use a person's personal Google data to create their doppelganger? To reconstruct their personality, behavior patterns and hidden desires?

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DW Dokumentationen | Made to Measure - eine digitale Spurensuche
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DW Dokumentationen | Made to Measure - eine digitale Spurensuche
Image: Cats&Docs

 

A cross-media data experiment makes it possible to experience what kind of insights into our most intimate secrets Google, Facebook, and others already have. 

 

 

DW Dokumentationen | Made to Measure - eine digitale Spurensuche
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In the film, a former YouTube developer, a Google marketer, an expert for personalized advertising and several data protectionists explore the potentials - and the risks - that lie in algorithmic personality detection and behavior prediction.

 

 

 

DW Dokumentationen | Made to Measure - eine digitale Spurensuche
Image: Cats&Docs

The film exposes how tech companies use the collected data of billions of people to turn our weaknesses, insecurities, illnesses and vulnerabilities to addiction into profit.
 

Broadcasting Hours: 

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WED 11.10.2023 – 01:15 UTC
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SUN 15.10.2023 – 08:15 UTC

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