https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/podcast-episode-dr-seuss-warned-us
"Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher whose job it is to
watch his town’s one lazy bee, because “a bee that is watched will work harder,
you see.” But that doesn’t seem to work, so another Hawtch-Hawtcher is assigned
to watch the first, and then another to watch the second... until the whole
town is watching each other watch a bee.
To Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, the story—which long predates the
internet—is a great metaphor for why we must be wary of workplace surveillance,
and why we need to strengthen our privacy laws. Bedoya has made a career of
studying privacy, trust, and competition, and wishes for a world in which we
can do, see, and read what we want, living our lives without being held back by
our identity, income, faith, or any other attribute. In that world, all our
interactions with technology —from social media to job or mortgage
applications—are on a level playing field.
Bedoya speaks with EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley about how fixing the
internet should allow all people to live their lives with dignity, pride, and
purpose.
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
* The nuances of work that “bossware,” employee surveillance technology, can’t
catch.
* Why the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) isn’t the
privacy panacea you might think it is.
* Making sure that one-size-fits-all privacy rules don’t backfire against new
entrants and small competitors.
* How antitrust fundamentally is about small competitors and working people,
like laborers and farmers, deserving fairness in our economy."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
