Kara Frederick: Big Tech’s Totalitarianism

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Kara Frederick serves as the director of The Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation focusing her research on “Big Tech” and emerging technology policy.

She previously served as a counterterrorism analyst at the Department of Defense and was a Senior Intelligence Analyst for a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command, deploying to Afghanistan three times in support of special operations forces. She also served as a briefer to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict and was a liaison to the National Security Agency. Following her time at the Department of Defense, she helped create Facebook’s Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program and led the Facebook Headquarters’ Regional Intelligence Team.

Prior to joining Heritage, she was a fellow for the Technology & National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she concentrated on high-tech illiberalism, data privacy, and digital surveillance. Kara is a fellow with the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and spent two years as a lecturer at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C She is a regular guest on Fox News and Fox Business and has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, The Economist, Bloomberg, and others.

You can also find her on Twitter at @karaafrederick

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0:00.0	This is The Danger Close Podcast.
0:08.7	Beyond the Books with me, Jack Carter.
0:17.2	Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:21.4	Union.
0:22.4	My guest today is Cara Frederick, and I've been excited to talk to her for quite some
0:27.2	time. I read an article she wrote for Heritage.org titled Combating Big Text to Talitarianism,
0:34.1	a Road Map.
0:35.7	February 7th, go check out that article on Heritage.org.
0:40.4	But Cara is a fascinating person, grew up in a marine family, has a master's from King's
0:47.0	College London in war studies.
0:49.2	Went to the Defense Intelligence Agency, was attached to the NSA, was attached to JSOC,
0:54.8	did three deployments to Afghanistan before going to Facebook, where she was recruited
1:00.4	to start and lead Facebook's Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program.
1:07.0	Interesting, we talk about her experience at Facebook on this podcast.
1:10.7	She then went to the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a new American
1:16.4	Security before moving to where she is now.
1:20.0	And she is the Director of the Tech Public Policy Center at the Heritage Foundation.
1:26.4	And I really wanted to talk to her about the relationship between big tech and big government.
1:33.4	So now, without further ado, Cara Frederick.
1:37.7	Well, thank you for doing this.
1:41.8	I really appreciate you taking the time to do this.
1:45.0	And I got to tell you, I've been so excited to talk to you.
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