This TED Talk features attorney and educator Jennifer Granick, recorded live at TEDx Stanford 2017.

We are all activists now.

Thank you. I'll just stop here.

From the families who are fighting to maintain funding for public schools,

the tens of thousands of people who joined Occupy Wall Street

or marched with Black Lives Matter to protest police brutality against African Americans,

families that join rallies, pro-life and pro-choice.

Those of us who are afraid that our friends and neighbors are going to be deported

or that they'll be added to lists because they are Muslim.

People who advocate for gun rights and for gun control,

and the millions of people who joined the women's marches

all across the country this past January.

We are all activists now,

and that means that we all have something to worry about from surveillance.

Surveillance means government collection and use of private and sensitive data about us.

And surveillance is essential to law enforcement and to national security.

But the history of surveillance is one that includes surveillance abuses, where this sensitive

information has been used against people because of their race, their national origin,

their sexual orientation, and in particular because of their activism, their political beliefs.

About 53 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his I Have a Dream speech

on the Mall on Washington.

And today, the ideas behind this speech of racial equality and tolerance are so

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