that's recording on that camera toolovelyall righthello i'm tom scott and i've got a storyfor you it's set in a future notnecessarily the future i'm not sayingthis is what will happen but i thinkit's a plausible path from where we arenow to where we will be and where wewill be is april 2022 10 years timefirst person we're going to meet thereis jason stewart he's the mp for tootingand stretton uh he is the minister forsocial development he's considered kindof a hot shot among his party afterwinning his seat in the 2020 generalelection a very hard-fought contest alsoembroiled in a massive scandal but we'llget back to that in a minute this is the2022 iphone looks about the same thelaws of physics dictate you still need abattery brick but what has changed isthe mobile network speed 5g now blanketsthe country in 100 megabit internetaccess and the data caps are a thing ofthe past which means that last yearapple reused a trademark and introducedilife it's quite similar to your historyon microsoft nokia phones or droidlocker on android they're alldescendants of the accountabilitysystems that have been used for policeofficers and care workers for years nowwith ilife the phone is always recordingaudio and sending it and your locationto a cloud server the descendants ofsiri then generate a transcript of it ifyou're talking to someone else withilife it'll give you a text chat logit's not perfect but it's close enoughand if you have the new apple headsetit's got a couple of cameras embedded init which are always recording video whenthey're connected that's uploadedanalyzed and stabilized by the samesystems the cable instantly still getstangled in knots every time you put itin your bagwhat this means is that you can say topeople this is what i'm looking at rightnow this is what i just looked at it'sall hooked up to social networks this iswhat people use it for justin bieber'scomeback tour was live streamed aroundthe clock and never went below 50 000viewerswhat's more important though is thatilife gives you a life long a completehistory every person you've talked toevery friendly smile every strange youhave passed in the street your ownmemory is now indexed augmentedsearchable in your first 50 gigs ofstorage are freeand if you think that's far-fetchedlet's remember facebook is less than 10years old twitter is only six years oldand the iphone itself five years we'vegone from t9 text entry to full voicedictation in half the time we're talkingabout here which brings us back to jasonstewart jason is a member of cheshireboys the site for his old alumni of hispublic school runs on disco a fairlypopular community framework thatunfortunately has some fairly majorsecurity flaws including one that allowsmass stealing of passwords now let's goto russia natalia orlowski is there sheis 15 she lives in an ex-soviet towerblock and she doesn't get out much she'srunning a bot that pulls in as many ofthose passwords as possible not foranything particularly evil she saw whathappened to the group that charged pawnto putin's credit card last yearbutbecause she can she takes all thesepasswords she bundles them together andshe puts them out on a paceman sidebecause she can it's just another bigleak there have been loads of thembeforeand facebook and all the networks willof course lock everyone's account downand require they change their passwordagain but in the meantime lots of peopleare looking through this list and oneperson is going to notice two team jasonat gmail.comhis password is stuart9 that's the samepassword he uses everywhere and someonegoes hey let's log into his icloud firstthing they see is apple's handy is thisyou feature jason stewart can be seen ina few frames of this walk by inshoreditch he wasn't recording but hisphone had his location and facialrecognition did the rest and it didn'ttake too much effort to find out what hewas doing therea few minutes later this poison penletter arrives in every single politicaleditor and bloggers inbox in the countrythe sun eventually runs with it firstafter all the blogs have made it publicknowledge and jason stewart's careeris ruinedexcept it's notbecause he's not committing a crimeunder uk law he's divorced so he wasn'teven committing adultery it's 2022 hedecides he's going to go on the offensehe gets up in parliament and says thatour private lives should be private andthat we must investigate these hackersand he convinces the met to investigatewhich they do by filing a request withapple for any life logs that mentionjason stewart in the hours and minutesbefore the leak and apple agrees becausethat argument got settled years agoafter blackpoolso that's the way it works nowsomeone's arrested 16 years old so theycan't be named but we know they've beenreleased on bail on the grounds thatthey not use the internet or a computerwhich means of course that they can't doanything and that's the president saidif you're in the same area as the victimof a crime or you say the same name as avictim of a crime in the minutes orhours before your life log will getpulled and searched through by thepoliceand you can always close your accountand opt out of course that optionis right there butit's so damned usefuland besides all your friends use it andbesides lots of companies are requiringthat their employees use it forliability purposes and besides all thatit's not like you've got anything tohiderighti'm tom scott thank you very much[Applause]you