Navigating Complexities of Legislative Action on Data Privacy & Surveillance

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This chapter delves into the importance of nuanced data protection regulations amidst proposed broad legislative bills affecting content moderation on social media platforms. It highlights the challenges surrounding data privacy, surveillance capitalism, and the need for comprehensive legislative actions in a landscape of evolving cybersecurity concerns.

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the motivations behind the proposed TikTok ban and what the effort tells us about US tech policy.

Jacob Silverman is a tech journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Paris will be speaking in Montreal on March 23 and March 26.
Jacob wrote about the GOP megadonor who could benefit from whatever happens to TikTok.
Paris wrote about the geopolitics of the TikTok ban and what it says about US power.
Taylor Lorenz broke down some of the disputed claims being made about TikTok.
Sam Biddle wrote about how Facebook knows they violated Palestinian human rights.
Byron Tau explained how US government agencies are getting people’s personal data from data brokers.

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