The article announces a new season of "How to Fix the Internet" while highlighting a significant past episode featuring Alvaro Bedoya, a Federal Trade Commission Commissioner. The discussion focuses on workplace surveillance and the critical need for stronger privacy laws. It mentions an attempt by the Trump administration to terminate Bedoya's appointment unlawfully, underlining the importance of FTC's role in protecting digital privacy. The article also draws a metaphor from a Dr. Seuss story to reflect the surveillance dilemma in a humorous yet insightful way.
In our conversation, we talked about his work there, about why we need to be wary of workplace surveillance, and why it's so important for everyone that we strengthen our privacy laws.
The law is clear: The president does not have the power to fire FTC commissioners at will. The FTC's focus on protecting privacy has been particularly important over the last five years.
Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher whose job it is to watch his town's one lazy bee... But that doesn't seem to work...until the whole town is watching each other.
We hope you'll take some time to listen to this May 2023 conversation with Alvaro about the better digital world he's been trying to build through his work at the FTC.
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