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Cindy Cohn

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187 total appearances

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Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

And I think we're living in a time where that's not a safe assumption anymore.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

We have to fight for our privacy.

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‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

I mean, I think conceptually there ought to be privileged places in conversations with chatbots.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

I'm actually a little more interested in trying to

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

not have the companies have all that information and trackable back to you.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

So I'm more interested in people who are developing ways that you can have anonymity in your use of these things so that they don't have anything that they can reveal about you.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

And I think that's a better way to go than expecting them to stand up and protect us.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

I mean, you know, it's an old video of the Facebook privacy promises, right?

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‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

I mean, and I'm an old lady, right?

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

I remember when Facebook came out, they were the privacy protective social network because they... And then you can see their terms of service shrink over time to what they're promising you about their privacy and...

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

You know, if their promises to you are up against their business model, I think you know which one is going to win.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

And so they're now all committed to mass surveillance as a business model.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

And I think that means that we need to take some policy and legal actions to try to cut that off at the knees.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

It was a long time coming because there are, you know, there's plenty of people who are still on the platform who care about their rights.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

And it's always a hard decision because we always want to be able to talk to people who...

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

you know, care about rights.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

And there are plenty of people on that platform who do.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

I mean, there's a couple of things that happen.

Hard Fork
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

We saw our reach just shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, right?

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‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

I mean, there was just recently the picture of who has reach on the platform and it's nobody who's talking about digital rights in the, you know, on your side.