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. At the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. In NOVA's Secrets in Your Data, host Alok Patel explores these issues on 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.

Join NOVA at GBH for a screening of selected clips from Secrets in Your Data paired with a panel discussion featuring experts from the film. Following the program, we will host a catered reception in the atrium.

NOVA's Secrets in Your Data premieres Wednesday, May 15, at 9/8c on PBS. Check local listings for details. It will also be available for streaming online and via the PBS video app

Our panel for the evening will include:

Alok Patel — Moderator, Host of Secrets in Your Data, Physician, ABC News Medical Contributor
Matt Mitchell — Founder of Crypto Harlem, Hacker
Ramesh Raskar — Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab, Founder of the PathCheck Foundation
Hayley Tsukayama — Associate Director of Legislative Activism, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Major funding for Secrets in Your Data is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the George D. Smith Fund, Inc.

Funding for NOVA and this program is provided by Carlisle Companies, the NOVA Science Trust (with support from Margaret and Will Hearst and Roger Sant), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers

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