We Must Legislate to Block Collection of Personal Data

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 22, 2018, noon (120 minutes)

With surveillance so pervasive, weak measures can only nibble around the edges. To restore privacy, we need strong measures. Companies are so adept at manufacturing users' consent that the requirement hardly hampers their surveillance. This talk will discuss how what we need nowadays is to put strict limits on what data systems can collect.

Presenters:

• Richard Stallman
  **Richard Stallman** launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (www.gnu.org) in 1984. (GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today.) He has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

Links:

• https://xii.hope.net/schedule.html#-we-must-legislate-to-block-collection-of-personal-data-
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) We Must Legislate to Block Collection of Personal Data.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) We Must Legislate to Block Collection of Personal Data.eng.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiocIgOc4Rs

Similar Presentations:

• Diana Initiative 2020 Virtual / Products People Trust: Privacy, Consent, & Security
• 33C3 (2016) / Build your own NSA: How private companies leak your personal data into the public domain, and how you can buy it.