Hello there just gone 6 oclock here in moscow youre watching r. T. International might be the morning after the Election Night before but the race for the white house is still on a knife edge and results hanging in the balance in a few key states that are yet to declare now within the last hour joe biden has taken the lead in michigan although the votes are still being counted we have to say in fact kind thing is not finished in several key states they are in great on this big map up here and a sea of red you might look at and think that trump has actually may have won this election that just indicates hes actually won more states but biden is actually more electoral votes at this stage which is of course what counts big. Population states like california for example did actually give him 55 votes and so far biden is 238 to trumps 213 with 270 the magic number needed for victory so lets bring in our u. S. Correspondent Maccallum Orkin who joins us from new york areas a good evening kel
Government can formulate policy is can know how to unlock a look at resources it is not necessary and in fact it is forbidden by law for the government to use this to directly identify people or to directly target individuals that is actually would be completely illegal by the statistics law that could be mentioned before. I think its also important for us to recall that theres a context here that the government itself has in previous times collected peoples data and then utilize it for the proper sees that it has and it was not intended so for example in the run up 227000 elections when people being asked to register. To vote in citing cases that information was taken was combined with information a government already has about mobile phone users because of go to register your same kind of it only get one and then they use that to try and push up. Out. People registering for the vote. In particular regions where they wanted particular candidates to win you know and even in especially
Our privacy is protected. So kevin kelly talks a bit about that sometimes hes got a well known thinker on this and the need for some kind of Artificial Intelligence agent that actually represents us because frankly if we were to receive disclosures every time that our data was being used today i system all we would do all day long would be received disclosures and try to read disclosures that tell paraiso the systems are so so i think that its really an issue where yes we should be told but there has to be a better way for us to gain control 1st of all of the inception of whether we want to participate so i could have all of 2 understanding there may be red flags that hey this is something that your interest may be violated or you may concern your book because just the idea of like policing all our data totally impossible. Probably the best example of what could possibly happen to our data is from a p. R. Company that doesnt exist anymore called cambridge analytical in the u. K. And ho
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