Ep. 871 How to Keep the Spooks from Snooping Through Your Email
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We know the government snoops on email and other electronic communications, and yet most of us do nothing about it: we figure we'd have to be full-time techies even to begin to figure out how to protect ourselves. DigitalSafe CEO Alain Ghiai joins me today to discuss why privacy matters, and how regular people can reclaim their email and file-sharing privacy.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 871. |
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| 0:36.0 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. I am speaking today for those of us who have this |
| 0:40.4 | crazy idea that we ought to have some kind of privacy when it comes to our electronic |
| 0:44.8 | communications, that we ought to be able to do file sharing and emails without worrying that |
| 0:51.4 | anybody might be snooping, that our privacy is being compromised, and yet we all |
| 0:57.0 | kind of feel like there's nothing we can do about that. Or you'd have to be some technical whiz to |
| 1:02.2 | figure it out, and this would take half your life. And so most people just say, ah, forget about it. |
| 1:06.7 | I guess there's nothing I can do about it. But it turns out there actually is something you can do |
| 1:10.0 | about it that is newbie friendly, basically. And I I can do about it, but it turns out there actually is something you can do about it. |
| 1:18.6 | That is newbie friendly, basically, and I just found out about it myself, and this is our subject for today, |
| 1:32.5 | with the CEO of DigitalSafe, which deals with precisely this, giving people privacy online, particularly with your email. And I'm joined today by the CEO of Digital Safe, Alain Guiai. Alan, welcome to the show. Thank you, Tom. Great being here. |
| 1:40.2 | Before we get into details about different countries, different privacy regimes and different laws that are in place, particularly in the United States, why should the average person care about any of this? |
| 1:53.8 | I mean, I think even though I talk about politically sensitive and unpopular things, if anybody got into my email, they wouldn't find |
| 2:03.3 | anything incriminating. It would be annoying. I wouldn't be happy if somebody was snooping |
| 2:07.8 | around in my email, but it's not like I'm going to jail for it. So just to play devil's |
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