Containing Big Tech

During the pandemic, the focus on AI and Big Tech started to grow because we were no longer interacting with other human beings face to face to help stop the spread of Covid. People started relying on their social media to keep updated with friends, working from home using Google for everything and trying to figure out how to automate as much as possible to avoid going insane. As a global society, we definitely saw the benefits of having access to large technology platforms and probably in a large number of ways saved our complex lifestyles that we lead. Who could even imagine What the global impact would have been if Covid hit in the 1980s before we were so interconnected?

Although the benefits were clearly seen during the crisis it also pointed out how dependent we had become on technology and how personal privacy is in danger as we continue to upload our lives on the platforms we use everyday.

 

 

Topics discussed in this episode:

- AI Taking Over [8:30]

- Regulations[11:22]

- Personal Copyrights [15:30]

- Protect Yourself [18:12]

- Too Far [24:00]

-  Social Media [31:00]

-  Freedom [38:15]

-  Two Worlds [39:00]

-  4th Amendment [42:35]

-  Data Rules [46:46]

- Laws Across the Country [47:58]

- Companies and Global Responsibilities [50:00]

- Revolution [53:21]

- Humanity [56:00]

 

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Guest Bio:

Tom Kemp an angel investor, with seed investments in over a dozen tech start-ups. In addition, Tom has served as a technology policy advisor for political campaigns and advocacy groups, including leading the campaign marketing efforts in 2020 to pass California Proposition 24 (the California Privacy Rights Act) and advising and contributing to the passage of state privacy laws in 2023 such as California SB 362 (the California Delete Act) and Texas SB 2105. Tom writes extensively on technology policy on his blog and has been interviewed as an expert in cybersecurity and privacy by The Guardian, Politico, Washington Post, CNBC, and Fox News.

Check out Tom’s book at: Containing Big Tech: How to Protect our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy.

 

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