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Is the West Out-Surveilling China? - Paul Walsh | Ep. 167

Is the West Out-Surveilling China? - Paul Walsh | Ep. 167

Season 1 Episode 167 Published 2 weeks, 6 days ago
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I call Paul Walsh a surveillance-tech whistleblower. Professionally he’s known as an independent technical expert on online safety, privacy, fraud, espionage and phishing, with global patents and advisory to agencies, governments & corporations. An early AOL pioneer, he co-invented the content labels behind account verification and advised the UK government during its first parliamentary inquiry into online child safety. He advocates for child safety, and civil liberties while exposing surveillance, state power and AI & big tech overreach. We discuss Digital ID’s core role, "protect the children" as a wrapper for social media bans, Chat Control and device scanning, and why Paul believes Western democracies are now outbuilding Russia and China on surveillance. 


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CHAPTERS 

00:00 - Coming Up...

02:29 - Introduction: Paul Walsh

03:22 - Governments & Big Tech Collaboration

05:39 - Identity Verification at the Heart of Everything

06:49 - Banned by AI, Exiled for Life

08:49 - Child Safety as the Trojan Horse: Australia, US, EU & UK

13:10 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Abundant Mines

15:35 - Parental Controls Are Built Into Every Phone

18:32 - 14 Years Ago: UK Government Ignored His Advice

23:57 - Why Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Built to Fail

27:54 - Efrat’s Substack Ban in Australia

29:46 - “Robust Age Verification” Means ID for Everyone

32:36 - Ad-Break: Trezor

33:08 - What Edward Snowden Showed Us

35:39 - Chat Control 1.0 in the EU

39:33 - Chat Control 2.0 Removing End-to-End Encryption

40:36 - Apple’s iMessage & ChatGPT: Consent Nobody Gave

49:15 - Surveillance by Flock, Carbyne & more

54:05 - Caring About Kids Without Surveilling Everyone

58:35 - Is the West Out-Surveilling Russia & China?

01:08:11 - Meta’s Lawsuit & Laws That Reward It

01:13:07 - Digital ID, Ireland’s Wallet & the Digital Euro

01:17:17 - Ireland’s Big Tech Dependency & Public Private Partnerships

01:23:29 - Can This Be Rolled Back?

01:25:31 - “AI Broke Out”: What’s Really Going On

01:29:24 - VPNs, Palantir & Predictive Policing

01:31:56 - CBDCs: Who Decides How Much You Can Spend?

01:34:42 - Privacy & Decentralization: GrapheneOS, Nostr, White Nois

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