About Surveillance | Jacob Appelbaum | Hermit Talk (2023)

Can a caveman escape surveillance? Hermit Talk with Jacob Appelbaum about the comprehensive control that the state and corporations exert over our digital devices.

In this Hermit Talk, Jacob Appelbaum explains how our phones, computers, and our entire communication can be monitored by tech companies and the state.

The talk centers around one simple question: is it possible for one hermit to privately communicate with another hermit? In answering, Jakob Appelbaum discusses topics of mass surveillance, he explains the potential power of perfect data and how that power can be misused against our personal rights.

Appelbaum focuses on content moderation and expresses the conviction that the solution to bad speech is more speech. He asks what the European Union can do for the ideal of a free internet. Talking about Wikileaks and Julian Assange, he outlines the idea that leaking documents is urgently needed to retain our democracy.
6 Mar 2023

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