David Brin Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd
Virtually Speaking
English - February 21, 2014 02:00 - 1 hour - 13.8 MB - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Author David Brin recently updated his essay Why Transparency will Save Privacy. Jay and David discuss the implications of recent revelations of US government surveillance activities.
Hugo, Nebula, Campbell and ALA award winning David Brin is also the author of the remarkably prescient The Transparent Society. Awarded the ALA Freedom of Speech award, in this book he argues that technological innovation makes surveillance impossible to stop, but that the ultimate response by civil libertarians is to turn the camera around, and make the activities of powerful public and private organizations more transparent.