Months have put Data Protection back in the spotlight join a crisis of this kind do we have to choose between safety and privacy while i talk about this with Richard Stallman Digital Privacy activist and the founder of the Free Software movement. Richard stallman Digital Privacy activist the sounder and later all the Free Software movement its such a pleasure to have you on our program once again while richard time so really changed and still last time we and jews folk and i have so many questions. Especially now that were in the middle of one of the biggest crisis our generations have faced in the past 100 years so is the coronavirus epidemic has shown that. Giant Tech Companies can use stand resources to help out in a crisis situation and thats undeniable i havent seen that well i mean i havent seen them help. Them remain saying that theyre doing right now is helping people spread insane lunatic rumors that are starting from the president of the us who is basically us the saboteur in
President ial debates on American History tv on cspan3. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property held a hearing on u. S. Copy right law and the 1998 copy right act which says when hosts must remove pirated content. This hearing will come to order turn your microphone. This hearing will come to order. While im disappointed we cant be together in person today, im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein and our clerk for facilitating todays hearing through webex. I want to make clear that this hearing is no way distracting from the full committee and my personal work on other pressing issues facing our nation. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and the horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd and the senseless deaths of so many of our africanamerican brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein for agreeing to hold a full Committee Hearing on policing in america and i will
And then i carry my groceries back and this way i am not having data about me put in a database because the only data the only personal data. That isnt just about you that isnt a threat to you is the data that hasnt been collected is a distraction to talk about protection of data in the databases because the real way to protect your privacy is make sure the data isnt collected about what you do or where you go or who you talk with or what you say to them. So were going to be talking all the progress whether people should be choosing between safety and privacy but let me just. Not a choice privacy is part of safety remember one of the biggest dangers these days is political safety safety for instance from governments that are repressive or thora tarion and cruel and if the more they know about what people are doing the more dangerous they are collecting data is part of their technique for repression and then there are the movements anti Truth Movement such as you can find many governmen
Actually, if people are lawabiding, they never think about endangering National Security, there is no cause for concern whatsoever. Is if therelegation is a National Security law in hong kong, the law should be enacted in hong kong by the Legislative Council. It should not be happening in beijing. The Hong Kong Government has been kept in the dark and the process. Again, this is wrong. Firstly, this is a national law. Of course if it is International Law it will have to be decided how to enact the law. Now, basic law states clearly that for matters of national , thise or Foreign Affairs is a matter for the cbg. No one would question that National Security is something outside the high degree of autonomy. Its a matter of sovereignty of the country. 18 after basic law, theres a process that allows National Laws to be added for implementation through hong kong through a specified procedure. The third point is the political reality. If you believe given the current political reality, given
Published. Meantime, facebook is making a big change to its ad business, announcing it will allow people to opt out of seeing political ads on facebook and instagram. Users will be able to mute electoral ads and ads on social issues as well. For more, i want to bring in purses and strategies founding partner, who was before that president obamas Reelection Campaign digital director. Teddy, good to have you back on the show. Facebook may the controversial decision to not factcheck political ads, not factcheck speech from politicians. What is your take on this now middle ground, saying you can turn off political ads if you dont want to see them . Teddy thanks for having me. I think the truth is it is not much of a middle ground. What its doing is putting the onus on the user to do the work. They are saying we wont provide any Fact Checking or any standards whatsoever on our platform, but you the user can click on a few buttons and hopped out if you make that decision. The thing i think t