Debating the Constitution: Technology and Privacy

Topics: Law, Politics, Tech, U.S.

Public Release Date: June 06, 2017

Do you have a secret that no one else knows? What about Apple, Google, Facebook, Verizon, or Uber? Are you sure they don’t know your secret? Digital data – emails, text messages, phone records, location records, web searches – contain traces of almost every secret. They also contain traces of almost every crime. Tech companies may promise to protect our data from prying eyes. But should that promise yield to law enforcement and national security?

ARGUING YES:

• John Yoo: Law Professor at Berkeley, Former Attorney at the Justice Department

• Stewart Baker: Former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under President of George W. Bush

ARGUING NO:

• Catherine Crump: Acting Director at Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic

• Michael Chertoff: Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Executive Chairman of The Chertoff Group, Co-author of the PATRIOT Act

MODERATOR-IN-CHIEF:

• John Donvan: Emmy award-winning journalist