Defending Democracy from Big Tech

Francella Ochillo is a digital rights advocate. A fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Executive Director of New Century Cities, we talked with her about making sure underserved communities are represented in discussions about platform accountability. Click here to listen or click play below.

David Hoffman is a cybersecurity policy expert at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.  He told us Big Tech should take much more responsibility for the harm done using their platforms. Click here to listen, or click play below. .

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert in privacy law and computer crime law.  He believes Internet regulators could adopt strategies similar to the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies. Click here to listen or click the play button below. 

Michael “Buz” Waitzkin is the Deputy Director of Science & Society at Duke University. We talked with him about the outsized impact technology has on consumer decision-making — even intimate healthcare choices. Click to listen or press play below.  

Robin Spector is a long-time Federal Trade Commission attorney who now works in the Office of Commissioner Christine S. Wilson. She talks about the challenges the FTC faces when enforcing the law with a small staff of 30 or 40 who focus on privacy-related cases. Click here to listen or [Keep reading]

Duke Law School student Alexys Ogorek spent months researching the Facebook Oversight Board. She explains why the concept is good, but the execution has — so far — fallen short. Click here to listen or press play below. 

Kyle Taylor serves on the ‘Real’ Facebook Oversight Board, created in anticipation of social media issues surrounding the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Taylor says Facebook hasn’t engaged in sincere dialog around issues like hate speech or disinformation. Click here to listen or press play below.

Duke University professor Shane Stansbury served for more than eight years as Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where he led some of the office’s most sensitive and noteworthy prosecutions in the areas of terrorism, cybercrime, espionage, money laundering, international public corruption, and global [Keep reading]

Martin Abrams is Executive Director and Chief Strategist for the Information Accountability Foundation, which receives funding from large technology companies.  We talked with him about early efforts at accountability and why technology firms would support such efforts. Click here to listen or click play below.