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David Carroll: The Postal Service is not necessarily digging through everyone's mail but they are analyzing our social media.
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David Carroll: been recently discovered, esp. w/ all the shenanigans at the Postal Service, that their law enforcement arm is using Clearview AI to find people in social media very easily.
Rick: Okay, but WHY is the Postal Service using this?!
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David Carroll: This erases a boundary between social media & law enforcement that needs to be there.
Police depts also use Clearview AI; that software can be used to find child predators, for ex.
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Rick: I keep coming back to: Why the Postal Service?
David Carroll: Almost everyone in law enforcement is playing with this new toy, & we don't know the implications of what happens when this gets adopted w/ no kind of oversight, & not just for USPS.
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David Carroll: Some people call it the "splinternet" because the internet is splitting into regional sectors, such as China's internet. Russia is trying to splinter off. In India, the internet has been shut down. In Europe, there are much stronger privacy rights
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David Carroll: Where our data lives & where it goes is a very important thing. It can go to places where you have fewer rights, or it can go to places where you have more rights.
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David Carroll: I saw a headline today that there is possibly some bipartisan support for a data privacy bill. During the Biden era is probably when something big would happen with a national set of data rights, similar to what Europe has.
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David Carroll: Privacy exists on a continuum. Take your house, for example. There's a difference in privacy between someone ringing your doorbell, letting them into your house, and letting them search your bedside drawer. Young people are savvy about privacy.
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David Carroll: Especially during the pandemic, students have had to install certain types of software to make sure they didn't cheat on schoolwork, for ex. Imagine it in the context of artificial intelligence, & you see how important these issues are
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Rick: You're part of the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack.
David Carroll: It was released in the summer of 2019 & tells about the scandal involving Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, & the election of 2016, & how dodgy things got.
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