Data Privacy Before & After a Pandemic with Marietje Schaake

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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4.6 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Some economists have argued that data is the new oil, a precious commodity driving exponential growth of some of the biggest multinational corporations. This week, our guest says it could also be the new CO2, quietly changing the world in irreparable ways if not properly controlled. On the latest episode of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, a look at the ongoing debate about data and how it’s used by governments and big tech companies in ways both helpful and harmful. The policy conversation was complicated before COVID-19, as Europe established its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the US begins to grapple with similar laws, like California’s Consumer Privacy Act. Our guest, Marietje Schaake, former EU Parliament Member and international policy director of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, argues that more regulation is necessary to curb unchecked use of consumer data. Taped just days before many US cities entered lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic, the interview also examines early uses of tracking and surveillance in Singapore and China, and what those actions foreshadow for the US as the nation balances freedom and security.

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0:00.0	There is a price if you do not have checks on power, if you do not have the rule of law guiding
0:06.2	throughout the society, whether it's online or offline.
0:11.6	Hello and welcome to the GZero World podcast. Here you'll find extended versions of the
0:17.2	interviews from my show on public television. I'm Ian Bremmer, and today I focus on data, privacy, and how coronavirus could exacerbate
0:26.2	threats to them both.
0:28.1	To help me, is a woman political named one of the savagiest legislators on digital issues.
0:33.5	Former EU Parliament member Marietta Chaka.
0:36.6	Let's begin.
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1:01.0	That's L-E-N-N-A-R-G-Z-E-R-O dot com. Matti Shakha, I'm the International Policy Director of Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center.
1:21.6	Welcome to GISA World.
1:23.6	We're talking today about data and the important fight that's happening, both among inside
1:33.3	societies as well as internationally.
1:36.2	And to get into that, explain why, I mean, so many, it's become so fashionable, say data
1:40.3	is the new oil.
1:41.3	Explain what data means in terms of power and wealth in society today.
1:47.0	Well, data is a raw ingredient that you can do so many things with. You can deploy it to, you know, common causes, to the public interest, to the public good, to make, for example, government more accountable or to create more transparency,
2:02.6	more insights into processes that impact all people. But what we see more and more of is,
2:07.6	of course, the hoarding and the harvesting and the collecting of data by big companies, which then
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