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In an age of smartphones and social media, is true anonymity still possible? This discussion delves into why the elusive artist Banksy's identity was always at risk in a world that has lost its sense of privacy.
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00:00no one is allowed to be anonymous anymore in this society you know with social media with
00:05the way that we video people with the way that we we take pictures all the time we have completely
00:10lost any sense of uh anonymity i actually watched a um a really fascinating documentary about
00:16brockwell lido uh that was set in 1995 that you can find on the bbc's youtube i know how to
00:22have
00:22fun did not see that on the home page of netflix it's a really lovely hour-long documentary just
00:28interviewing people that were going to brockwell lido on a hot saturday afternoon in 1995 and the
00:33absolutely shocking thing for me about that i mean apart from the fact obviously that there are no
00:36phones or whatever it's just what people are willing to do like they're they're like there's
00:41like lots of nudity there's lots of just like i would say too heavy petting um i i'm not i'm
00:47not
00:47enticing people into into watching this obviously but i think there is an element of like that the
00:53privacy that existed pre phone cameras and everything that we can now look at banksy and
00:59say that actually probably we were never going to allow him to be anonymous because no one in society
01:04these days is really allowed to be anonymous
01:05you
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