Guest thank you, peter, for having me. I help on cyber issues in the deferment of justice. It hosts at host of issues from Election Security issues to supply chain issues to crypto currencies to encryption and access to data. Host and what exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated law . Guest as you know, the garment of justice we are to enforce confederal, committal lot. An important part of what we do is bring terminal cases against individuals, organizations, foreign nation state actors who violate u. S. Federal law and there is a policy component to what i do which is to help the attorney general, Deputy Attorney general formulate policies working with the Congress Working with our interagency to advance rule of law. Is your position political or career . Guest i served in a political office. My role as a career, im a career employee. Its a little bit of both. Im a career person who serves in a political office. Host how long have you been at doj . Gue
Stories and uncover them in opinion form which is a rather large mandate. [laughter] in order to narrow the funnel i started looking through corporate figures and i saw from an amazing number of in terms of how the transition from the Financial Sector to the Technology Sector since the great financial crisis and one of the numbers that stuck out was a Mckinsey Global institute figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was being held in just 10 of firms and those are the firms that were richest in personal data and intellectual property so basically if you are trafficking in these things you are holding the majority of the worlds corporate wealth and the biggest of those firms were the ones that i profile in the book, facebook, apple, amazon, netflix a little bit and google. They make money, all of them, pretty differently but there is some overlap with facebook and google and Digital Advertising but look at apple and they mostly shunned advertising and look to sell their devices and
Cspan. Your unfiltered view of government. Created by cable in 1979, brought to you today by your television divider. The communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials, and technology leaders. Now on the communicators, we want to introduce you to sujit raman, the associate Deputy Attorney general. Mr. Raman, what is in your portfolio in that position . Sujit i helped oversee the work we do on cyber issues at the department of justice, so it is a host of issues related to technology from Security Issues to supplychain issues to cryptocurrencies to encryption and access to data issues, crossborder data issues. What exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated u. S. Law . Sujit thats right. As you know, at the department of justice, our job is to enforce federal and criminal law. Police bring criminal cases against people, organizations,
Washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials, and technology leaders. On the communicators, we want to introduce you to sujit raman, the associate Deputy Attorney general. What is in your portfolio in that position . Sujit i helped oversee the work we do on cyber issues at the department of justice, so a host of issues related to technology from Security Issues to supplychain issues to cryptocurrencies to encryption and access to data issues, crossborder data issues. What exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated u. S. Law . Sujit thats right. At the department of justice, our job is to enforce federal and criminal law. Please bring criminal cases against people, organizations, foreign state actors who violate u. S. Federal law, results in a policy component of what i do which is help the attorney policiesormulate working with the congress, our interagency to advance rule of law issue
Given the heights and cool and facebook and others recently. You normally have a pretty broad stroke to your coverage. Why this book and right now . Thank you for having me, by the by. I started this book in 2017 i had just taken a job as a columnist for the financial times, trying to figure out the worlds biggest business and economic stories and an opinion form, and for the final, i started looking through corporate figures. I saw amazing numbers in the Financial Sector to the technology sector. Run the numbers that really stuck out was a Mckinsey Global institute figure, looking at 80 corporate wealth was in just 10 . Because of the firms richest in personal data and intellectual property. Basically, if your trafficking in these things, were holding the majority of the world corporate wealth. The biggest were the ones like facebook, apple, amazon, netflix a little bit and googled most about. Theres some overlap, facebook and google, apple mostly shunned advertising and third devices