How can we ensure that global surveillance programs like the one Snowden exposed are good for society? - Michael Vogman
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In this episode, Michael Vogman and I discuss global surveillance programs and how they related to the tradeoff between privacy and security.
Follow-up questions we discussed included:
- How do you balance the need for safety and security with privacy?
- Is it inevitable that we will have to surveil everyone given technology/weapons are getting more and more powerful?
- Let’s say the right thing to do is surveil everyone, but the public wouldn’t agree to it; should the government do it secretly in our best interest?
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt articulated a blunt defence in a famous 2009 interview with Maria Bartiromo. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know,” Schmidt said, “maybe you shouldn’t be doing that in the first place.”; do you buy this argument against privacy? It’s known as the “nothing to hide” argument
- Would you be supportive of a software program owned by the government listening in on all phone and in-person conversations that flags when you say certain things? What about something implanted like Neuralink that monitors your thoughts?
- Are privacy and security in opposition? Can we achieve both?
Relevant article:
The Personal Privacy vs. Public Security Dilemma | RealClearPolitics
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