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Means of Control — Part 2
Season 2 · Episode 360

Means of Control — Part 2

Byron Tau joins host Ron Steslow to discuss how the federal government uses marketing data to spy on you.

Politicology

April 25, 202443m 14s

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Show Notes

In this two part series, Journalist and author Byron Tau joins host Ron Steslow to discuss his new book Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance Of Tech And Government Is creating a New American Surveillance State 


Part 2:


(02:17) The extensive government data collection Edward Snowden revealed 


(09:40) How data vendors bypass privacy reviews within government agencies 


(11:50) The role of encryption in safeguarding privacy and the historical context of encryption legalization 


(18:40) Government efforts to weaken encryption and what that means for your privacy 


(22:45) How foreign governments could misuse data


(24:24) The public awareness of this form of surveillance 


(26:38) What could legislative reform look like? 


(29:37) The influence of advertising and data brokers in shaping privacy 


Read Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance Of Tech And Government Is creating a New American Surveillance State — https://bit.ly/44199hw


Follow Ron and Byron  on X (formerly Twitter):


https://twitter.com/RonSteslow


https://twitter.com/ByronTau



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