Babbage: The price of a private phone call

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Babbage: The price of a private phone call

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Would you spend £10,000 on a smartphone? Tom Standage and Anne McElvoy visit the world of luxurious technology. Matthew Kaplan explains how your holiday snaps can have scientific uses, and researcher Lauren Sherman reveals how teenage brains react to social media For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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