# Take back control of your personal data

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@IBM
- Speaker: Maria Dubovitskaya
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/maria_dubovitskaya_take_back_control_of_your_personal_data)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Whether buying a bottle of wine, making an online purchase or going to a movie, most of us share far more information than is necessary: birthdates, credit card numbers, addresses. At a time when our personal information is at risk every day, cryptographer Dr. Maria Dubovitskaya is part of a team which has designed a system that shares only what's absolutely necessary while closely guarding the rest.

## Lectures

1. [Take back control of your personal data](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/maria_dubovitskaya_take_back_control_of_your_personal_data/0aa8d6be3cce), 10 min (TED's player)