On many essential attributes of a plan. It would be extremely challenging too used to document as a document to hold the iris, the Treasury Department, or anybody else accountable for missteps. The few things it almost entirely lax are quantitative targets to measure against, backup data to analyze, and various key operational details including, for example, who at the irs or Treasury Department is ultimately responsible for making decisions on any particular issue. This does not give any detail on how the irs will implement secretary yellens 400,000 dollar pledge. And details really matter here. It also does not estimate what any of the 42 initiatives or 190 odd key projects are expected to cost or clearly answer the basic question of which initiative or key projects can be fully implemented with the 80 billion dollars in funding. What the document quietly admits is astonishing. Despite contrary rhetoric, the irate did not give the irs enough funding to fully realize the plans divisio
Been doing this for a long time and i have been doing this since before there were laws in this space so there were some responsibility but in a regular talk i give to businesses right now is whether your data obligations because everybody has them now trade 47 states have passed certain data loss. Kentucky just past one this last month to come into the rest of the world. But its interesting, you have those in california has done things such as almost having a right to erase your past while on social media if you were a teenager. So god forbid any of us would have said things we were embarrassed about when we were a teenager and or posted them on line. That is where the California Legislature is coming from. Is a coming from the police . A little bit of both but theres a lot coming from the state legislature. Our good friends across the street here have been looking at this issue and have 20 or 30 acts in the statutes and the space up there looking at year after year after year but the
Russia turkey israel, lot of different other countries, u. K. And canada and really trying to understand their views on privacy. Whats interesting is they do draw the line theres a little different than how we think about it. So for example in the u. K. They see privacy is a right as it relates to businesses collecting your data. But they have no problem snapping your picture everywhere you go in the u. K. They are some of the most photographed citizens in the world so its interesting to see that. If you are getting ready to live or your children are getting way are getting ready to look another country or do business in another country youll definitely want to go to the book and look for some of the different differences between america from our point of view and those countries and their point of view on privacy. We thought it made it richer to explore what the whole world is doing and this and that in contrast and compare it to what we have. Is a possible globally to wipe out all yo
Me it is a lot or powerful and moving and haunting and meaningful if you will dont know. This story is obscure enough and the way it plays out it has a certain power if you dont know. You can google it. This is nonfiction and history and it happened and if you have to know you can do that. But i would encourage you not to do that. I would encourage you to just go with the flow. The last hundred pages go by quickly. I think they are more powerful if you dont know. Are you aware that the smithsonian holds jeannette artifacts . Yes, i do. Have you seen them . Yes. They are at the navy academic, smithsonian and National Archive has stuff, and stuff in San Francisco as well. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming. I will sign books down here. Right . Form up the chairs first and line them up solid. Thank you. Our special booktv programming over the next several hours focuses on Technology Beginning the the second machine age work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologie
I have one question so far which i think touches a little bit on that. What do the stagnation and end of innovation days not recognize when they face that . The great stagnation, his argument has used this plateau. You are painting quite a different picture. Hes a super smart guy and we discussed it with him. He really inspired us to work on that first book, race against the machine. When we read his book because he was arguing we had run out of innovation and it was just no more good things, a few good things left to invent. Hanging around a place like mit media lab, we thought that cant possibly be true. Is this guy looking at the same economy we are looking at is the question we had. On the other hit some compelling data about the stagnation of meeting and, and that reinforced us to think hard about how this could be happening. And thats where we came up with this recognition that just because meeting income is stagnating, that doesnt mean innovation is stagnating. In fact, paradoxi