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John Donvan:
The topic of tech -- it's a place where our lives meet science, and business, and culture and where so much is actually debatable. And that's why, at Intelligence Squared, we have debated tech's impact numerous times, in numerous areas, on the issues of privacy, on security, on our brains, on the state of our discourse. But this time we're going a little bit more global. Most of the online giants that we know, like Google, and Facebook, and Apple, and Amazon, they're products of American capitalism, but they play around the world, including where the rules are different.
Europe has passed laws that do set limits on these companies can do in a range of areas, including user data, with, you know, putting limitations on the gathering of and the storage of and the selling of and the deleting of. And some people here in the U.S., including some of the people who are now running for president in 2020, are suggesting the U.S. should do some of the same.
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