dangerous new technology in the hands of megacorporations or omnipotent governments from walen you tanita cyberdyne it never ends well which is why it's not surprising to see that in january more than eighty five human rights groups including the american civil liberties union national lawyers guild chapters and freedom of the press foundation road to microsoft google and amazon demanding that they stop selling privacy crushing technology like facial recognition software to governments militaries on law enforcement agencies but apparently the heads of those companies did not see or understand the moral message of the science fiction films we watched we growing up because of the world economic forum in davos this year when business insider asked the president and chief legal officer of microsoft bribed smith about the letter he replied i do not understand an argument that. companies should avoid all licensing to any government agency for any purpose whatsoever a sweeping ban on all government use clearly goes too far and risky and cruel and it's humanitarian a fact joining us now to discuss which is