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Bill Moyers: Big Brother’s Prying Eyes | Lawrence Lessig

submitted by radx

1 decade 12 months ago

Whatever your take on the recent revelations about government spying on our phone calls and Internet activity, there’s no denying that Big Brother is bigger and less brotherly than we thought. What’s the resulting cost to our privacy — and more so, our democracy?

Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and founder of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society discusses the implications of our government’s actions as well as Edward Snowden’s role in leaking the information. -- Moyers & Co

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Larry mentioned Palantir as a company that could provide technology to protect our privacy. Yet Palantir was involved in the campaign to take down WikiLeaks, so he might as well have named Gamma Group, the creators of FinFisher, your friendly Dictator's trojan of choice.

Scum, the lot of 'em.

Here's my suggestion on how to prevent abuse of (big) data: don't collect the fucking data; don't merge databases; don't store anything longer than absolutely neccessary. But demanding that sort of restraint strikes me as just as pointless as telling a 16 year old to stop wanking...

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