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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Big Brother Enabled by Big Data Analysis?
We need to be concerned about the way authoritarian regimes are using big data analysis. Street level surveillance has already been purchased by governments everywhere from Latin America, to sub-Saharan Africa,. There's been huge scandals in Britain over their purchase of Chinese surveillance technology. So technology basically enables the automation of oppression. Absolutely. But encryption allows us to fight back. It's very important people understand we have tools to fight back but big brother can only grow if it can feed on your data. And yeah, as long as there's no back doors and that's a sovereign thing that you've popped up and created and you have the keys to, absolutely.
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