Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest from Europe. His name is Gabriel C-U-C-C-O-D-I-E-T. And you'll see if you're watching this on X, Rumble, or RockVin, you'll see the cover of his most recent book.

Full title is Privacy and Utopia History.

And it's an intellectual history of the concepts of the kind of privacy and utopia,

which is kind of an interesting term like the desire for utopia.

Is there, is it there?

But I came across his work on her boy at Moorich's geopolitics and empire.

And I said, well, this will make a perfect guess

because it seems like this notion of privacy and censorship and identity

and things like that are very contemporary concerns.

Certainly concerns with me is how much information and data mining and things

like that that are really happening now and it's created this different man where they can go back

and find out all your information online if you're you know using your name and your credit and

your criminal history and where you've lived.

I mean, these are things you can get these background checks very simply.

So this is just simple phrase that starts out in his book and it is the right to be left alone.

Like privacy is the right to be left alone.

But you see more authoritarianism or desire to definitely there's sections in this book about

bodily autonomy which is a form of privacy and there's all kinds of issues right and i've been in

the legal environment hippa acts and privacy of people's illnesses or medical records and some of that stuff gets left out and some

and some very sensitive frankly um so those are also issues that are today that that uh are

concern about privacy still but his earlier book that was the one that i came across first which

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