#005 - Silkie Carlo - You Are Being Watched! How Big Tech & Government Track Your Daily Life
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Silkie Carlo is the Director of Big Brother Watch, where she leads efforts to defend civil liberties and protect privacy rights against state surveillance. She is at the forefront of challenging the UK's invasive surveillance laws and advocating for the protection of free speech and personal freedoms.
In this episode, we dive into the growing government panopticon, the implications of mass surveillance on privacy and democracy, and the battles being fought to protect individual rights in a digital age. We explore the expansion of state power, the impact of technologies like facial recognition, and the threats posed by new laws, as Silkie provides an eye-opening account of the fight against a surveillance state determined to monitor and control.
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| 0:00.0 | Everything we do online and phone calls and text messages, |
| 0:05.0 | all of our electronic communications are swept up into a surveillance machine |
| 0:13.0 | operated by our own governments against us, the public. |
| 0:17.0 | It's not just about protecting the public. It's actually about protecting those with power |
| 0:21.5 | from change quite often, and particularly from meaningful change. |
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| 1:12.7 | Silki, hi. Hello. Thank you for coming in. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:17.2 | Are we sleepwalking into dystopian hell? Or are we here? Yeah, quite possibly. We've come a long |
| 1:24.7 | way towards the surveillance state dystopia in the past 10 years in particular |
| 1:30.1 | and I think the Claxton was really triggered with the Snowden Revelations of 2013 and that was |
| 1:37.4 | when the West found out that we already live under a mass electronic surveillance grid |
| 1:43.4 | not just the bad guys, but actually entire |
| 1:46.5 | populations. |
| 1:48.2 | And since then, rather than the kind of initial outrage that we saw in the Guardian and the |
| 1:55.3 | newspapers and the sense that there was going to be a rollback, actually what's happened is that it's extended. |
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