Find out who’s using your data and what you can do about it.

Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy – even your safety. But at the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. Host Alok Patel leads a quest to understand what happens to all the data we’re shedding and explores the latest efforts to maximize benefits – without compromising personal privacy.

View NOVA’s documentary with us, as well as WFSU producer Rob Diaz de Villagas’ short piece on collecting data through citizen science.

Our panelists will include

Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Florida State University, Jonathan Fozard.

Jonathan Fozard serves as the Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Florida State University, a position he has held since November 2020. He leads a team of over 750 IT professionals who support academic, research, communication, security, and administrative computing functions across Florida and at international locations in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and the Republic of Panama. Jonathan also manages the Florida Northwest Regional Data Center, Florida Virtual Campus, and the State Data Center of Florida. Recently, he was confirmed by the Florida Senate for a four-year term on the Technology Modernization Council for the Governor, which aims to advance technology and artificial intelligence throughout the state.

Richard R. Burnette III, PhD, senior vice provost and FSU’s institutional data administrator. For the past 25 years, Dr. Burnette has been leading the efforts to make FSU one of the most data informed campuses in the country.

Dave Almquist, Invertebrate Zoologist. Dave has been FNAI's Invertebrate Zoologist since 2005 and added the responsibilities of Assistant Data Manager in 2017. He is most knowledgeable about beetles, but has worked with a variety of rare invertebrates, including bees, grasshoppers, and spiders. Dave is responsible for compiling, entering and updating information about the invertebrates tracked by FNAI, evaluating additional species for inclusion in the database, and surveying for the presence of rare invertebrates. On the data management side, he helps by bulk loading data, training staff on database methodologies, and increasing accuracy and efficiency of data entry by creating and maintaining tools and guidance documents.

Rob Diaz de Villegas, WFSU's environmental content producer.

Secrets in Your Data is a NOVA production by Structure Films for GBH. Written by Jason Sussberg. Produced and directed by
David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. Hosted by Alok Patel. Senior Producer for NOVA is Caitlin Saks. Executive Producers for
NOVA are Julia Cort and Chris Schmidt. NOVA is a production of GBH.

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