2.2 · Privacy, GDPR & AI
Perspective: Tristan Harris on Technology That Manipulates
7 minCourse 02
This isn't a GDPR tutorial — it's a talk about why data protection law exists. Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist, explains how technology platforms use data and algorithms to steer the attention and behaviour of billions of people. Watch it as an outside perspective on what unaccountable data processing looks like at scale.
Key Point to Watch For
Harris describes systems making consequential choices about people without their knowledge or recourse. That is precisely the situation GDPR's transparency rights — and Article 22's human-review requirement — were written to prevent.
