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Uncharted: Access denied

Uncharted: Access denied

What happens when a system designed to help people harms them instead?

Discovery · BBC World Service

March 25, 202427m 25s

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Show Notes

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.

A young researcher gains access to a secretive data set and discovers a system causing harm to the very people it is supposed to help.

One day a student makes a discovery which, if true, could shake the intellectual foundations of a global movement, and undermine politicians around the world.

Producer: Lauren Armstrong Carter