Media Freedom in a Changing World: Ari Waldman

18/03/2025 31 min
Media Freedom in a Changing World: Ari Waldman

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Ari Waldman is a professor of law at the University of California-Irvine and the author of two books, "Privacy As Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age" and "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power," both published by Cambridge University Press. He was honored as one of Prospect magazine’s Top Fifty Thinkers in 2020. He serves on the board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and he was elected chair of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), the premier academic conference in the field of law and technology, in 2020. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and law and bachelor’s degrees from Harvard.

In this episode, Waldman questions why we allow technology experts to have extensive control over how new technology, such as AI, is regulated. He also discusses how authoritarians use the language of harassment and technology tools to silence dissent.