The US government can always demand access to that data.

And so those governments are never really sovereign.

You know, they don't have proper control over the information that is within their jurisdiction,

which is kind of a wild thing to say and to have to admit.

Yeah. admit. Hello and welcome to tackle and save us made in partnership with The Nation

magazine.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is, well, I don't have a guest.

I'm just doing this myself this week.

And for good reason, Tech Won't Save Us is at episode 300, which is honestly hard to believe.

You know, it's hard to believe that I have been doing this show for five and a half

years that I started in the middle of a global pandemic, or I guess not even in the middle of it,

but quite early on in it. And to think that after all of that time, I have now interviewed

hundreds of people, made some series on special shows, got to learn so much about so many different aspects of the tech industry, and hopefully shared a lot of people's perspectives and ways of thinking about these issues with you as well. And that, you know, hopefully you learned some things from that over however many episodes of the show

you have listened to. I'm sure I say it every single time I hit one of these milestones,

but it's always hard to believe that I have been doing the show for this long, for this many

episodes, and admittedly, I don't really have plans to stop doing so anytime soon. And so I figured with that milestone,

I have a right to commendere this episode for myself. If you're a regular listener of the show,

you will know that I don't do this very often. I don't usually have an episode without a guest

where I just kind of talk about an issue that I think is important.

It's probably only happened a few times in the history of Tech Won't Save Us itself,

maybe like once in every hundred episodes, we might say.

And so I figured if I'm going to do an episode like this, why not do it on episode 300?

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