privacy let me just got i wanna riffle little bit about privacy here
because you know frankly i think most americans don't get it
back in seventeen seventy-six tuesday seventeen seventy three
three years before the american revolution
in the fall of seventeen seventy three
a fellow by the name of ross dicuss
i was in his name it was a sedan and we still don't know who it was
we believe that at least one of the pamphlets attributed to him was actually
written
by samuel adams
but nobody is even sure of that
pose dena
flyers
boatswain's they call them in the day
on the house is on trees
were pretty off the wall
another copy of an equal protection you're with them
grabbing arrangements it's it's it's no big deal that's
but i quote a number of these in my book an equal protection
and eight it's just
these were open calls for
or for rebellion against the east india company with regard to the t
and they'd and these anonymous posters lead right to the boston tea party
period in our discussion i mean that happened
and the founders of the framers the constitution particular jefferson and
madison got it
if you want to have periodic revolutions in america and i'm not talking about
violent revelations although that's what
ultimately the boston tea party led to the american revolution
but we've had a series of revolutions in america whether it's the end of slavery
are arguably that came out as a civil war
in french has been of women the civil rights era
uh... the uh... the gay rights era i mean i ran it on there been a number of
revolutions uh... probe prohibiting alcohol really there was no call there's
been a little are
that nothing to do with violence but they all came from the
people in in many cases
they came from the people organizing anonymously
because they knew that if they try to organize out in public order
if the government to forget the corporations that they were working
against in some cases i mean keep in mind
our country was kicked off by anti corporate act of
civil disobedience in the district the private property that boston tea party
they have those people move known who they where they could have done
swelled non-violent protests is always been though most successful violent
revolutions tend to produce
isomers a produce really significant change
it's our country had started
frankly over a long term and end at in others in every david swanson actually
makes a very good argument in his book uh... wars on y
that even the american revolution in the civil war
did not have to be forest worse
that they could have been just a successful had they been non violent
actions
it's increasingly looking like the united states is about one generation
away from completely forgetting what privacy means
and the consequences of that great forgetting are gonna be tragic for our
nation
because without privacy without the ability to be anonymous
americans can even plan eight
peaceful revolution are non-violent progressive social change movement is a
big corporations
or big brother are watching
they can block efforts before they even be compelled alot
in recent years we've learned about the masses surveillance systems been built
by the corporate state
for example we now know about the walls wiretapping american citizens after nine
eleven we know about trap a wire
there's a law enforcement to electives track of our movements in major cities
across the nation through closed-circuit cameras
facial recognition software license plate rips
and we know the enormous spy centre being built by the nasa by the uh... an
essay in utah
that's gonna houses like zuni ends of things are emails or phone calls or text
message is all about in one place
the n_s_a_
canal hole
the digital version of fifty
quinn at five hundred quintile ian pages of text
as a lot of the debt
what's worse americans are increasingly willing to give the surveillance state
in snoopy corporations whatever they want
well i has as conan i go to new york times uh... gives me adds that uh... are
just exactly what i'm looking for
who is a really noticed this after her cancer diagnosis and behen with breast
cancer which airs
so far been successfully treated with surgery in chemo
uh... to the point she did a lot of googling about breast cancer and now
pretty much every
website she visits
she gets ads for everything from chemo wigs to
to uh... cancer treatments
and it's like
how does this website now
we're sacrificing privacy for convenience and interconnection
weren't busy as tically posting our locations are pictures are personal
information on sites like facebook and twitter
i mean that you have people are starting to figure out this might have a back
side of my kick him in the bot when they're like looking for a job
and all of a sudden the pictures from when they were seventeen and drunkard
there for the world to see
forever
but even worse all of these are monitored by the corporate surveillance
state and by those corporations themselves your weather experience is
now carefully compiled and examined it
so big corporations can get you can make more money advertising
directly to you targeting you
on advertisers know what you want 'cause they've been collecting data on the web
sites you go to and what you search for and they're reading your emails
all is arguably za blatant violation individual privacy when you say
yes i click on the terms and conditions yes i read those they didn't
you do you know i i know you didn't you know you didn't
as a consequence that online data collection is now a multi-billion dollar
industry
this level level of surveillance would have been unthinkable
from the founding of our country
becker founding fathers held privacy to be one of the highest rights eroded into
the fourth amendment
and today we just accept these invasions of our privacy
but in europe they're not accepted it
citizens and other democracies are not as naive or as passive as americans at
least in europe under pressure from the e_u_ the european union face book is
announces scrapping its facial recognition software into leading all
the data that they got from it
but here in the u_s_ and to continue to use it
even though people like the allay the electronic privacy information center
epic
is opposed to it and speaking out loudly about it
we just don't have the laws that are needed here the united states to protect
privacy online
as long as advertisers can make box big money on big money on knowing your
habits in your secrets
we're never going to have those laws ca citizens united give
as advertisers a right to buy your members of congress but there is no
comprehensive prior federal privacy statute the protects personal
information instead
a patchwork of federal laws and regulations governor collection and
disclosure personal information
anchors on it
so can you imagine on in europe isabella rights frontline uses called the data
protection directive
and in europe they've got new laws coming down the road to protect people
on-line users and and and hit governments and corporations with heavy
fines
europeans have figured out this is a big deal
now just consider
rustic a supposed to do this from my book on equal protection rustic rustic
us
polish you know posted this thing
on the wall
are on a whole bunch of walls and trees and whatnot
all over the place
our way in like manner they get up to the disposal of the east india company
who have now the assurance to step forward in aid of the minister to
execute is planning slave in america
their conduct in asia for some years back has given simple profile little a
regard the laws of nations the rights liberties are wives of men
it loaded warrick senator billions dethroned lawful princes and sacrifice
millions for the sake of profit
the revenues of mighty kingdoms of saturday night coffers and is now being
sufficient to go out there ever admitted it maybe they were tired of being
capitan
and these are the insufficient blood their average they have i the most
unparalleled barbarity extortion to monopolies
strep but miserable inhabitants of their property and reducing tired nations
indigents and will end
fifteen hundred thousand
it is said that you want a half million perished by famine in one year not
because the f_b_i_ it spreads
because this company
set the price sulfide or could not purchased them
you're listening to good com hardman
calling six six nineteen seventy-eight join so the question i have the east
india company known a rustic this was so they can add a morass that are shut down
when we have had the boston tea party american relations