How Much is Your Government Enabled to Know about You?

The brainchild of 2017-18 Millennial Pubic Policy Fellows Myacah Sampson and Christian Hosam, the Direct Message Podcast is an “attempt to level” with the audience they’ve built from their work on the Direct Message Blog and “invite dialogue across difference.” Click HERE to read their post introducing themselves and the podcast.  

Myacah tapes up her webcam, Christian doesn’t.  In some ways, this exemplifies two major attitudes among millennials regarding surveillance — tin-foil hat paranoia and complete acceptance. How’d we get here? The PATRIOT Act made sweeping changes to civil liberties in response to 9/11 with near-unanimous support from Congress. How did some of parts of this legislation and the fervor around it shape our understandings of privacy and security? More specifically, what does it mean for how millennials perceive security and privacy after growing up in an age where civil liberties around access to data both developed and transformed?

For their second DM episode Myacah and Christian sit down with Alyssa Sims, fellow millennial and policy analyst with New America’s International Security Program. 

We hope you enjoy our discussion and keep a look out for our next episode.

As always, thanks for letting us slide into your DMs.