Previewing our first season of Between Two Codes: A Law and Technology Podcast. We will be featuring some of the work by professors at Georgetown Law at the intersection of law and technology. This season we will be talking about social media, privacy, the pandemic, surveillance, and access to justice. You will not want to miss an episode.
Ian: Hello, and welcome to Between Two Codes! We’re a new podcast out of Georgetown University Law Center focused on the intersection of law and technology. We have an exciting season of interviews for you to check out—we invite you to join us and listen.
Ian: Between Two Codes is a student-run podcast featuring interviews of the experts at Georgetown Law. Our episodes this seas on will discuss privacy, social media, disinformation, access to legal tools, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Our group has been working very hard all semester to bring you some excellent interviews and insight from our professors, we’re excited to share them with you.
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Laura Donohue: But it creates this false reality as though everybody believes that. When in fact it is this socially constructed and augmented world.
Paul Ohm: That's the problem with making technologies of surveillance, they're always done for a really good reason and they're never dismantled. As soon as the emergency ends, creative and hardworking people use it to solve other problems. Half of those problems we will think it is amazing, laudable, and isn't the world better because of them—and half those will be problematic, concerning, and lead to bad places. And once in a blue moon, they will come up with a use that is just evil.
Laura Donohue: Traditionally, national security is when a government attacks another government, or a non-state actor attacks a government. The government's not in this picture. This is privately owned companies, sometimes just straight out contracts with them. Picking up metadata, using that information, and advertising.
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