Technology

We and our families are being overwhelmed by technology: Social Media, AI, and Data Capture and Surveillance. Technology has caused Digital Dementia, perverted the truth, and destroyed our privacy. We do not know real from fake or truth from lie. With data collection and surveillance, corporations manage and monetize our daily choices. The even darker side is that the algorithms along with AI chatbots prey on our society destroying children, families, our economy and our democracy creating a police state.

Efficiency is not a blank check for data abuse.

We need to:

1. Require ID to open a Social Media account.

2. Ban Social Media for 17 year-olds and younger.

3. Reduce hyper-stimulation in children from media and screens.

4. Protect our children and the unsuspected from chatbots.

5. Defang the algorithms. Social media should not put people in echo chambers. Any content that is not factual needs an opinion disclaimer.

6. Implement apps like C2PA to identify content authenticity, deep fakes, and chatbots.

7. Stop Customer Surveillance Pricing

8. Opt-In instead of Opt-Out. All data collection should be on an opt-in basis with opt-out as the default

9. Any company that uses personal data has to pay the individual for the use of the data.

10. Enhance NY’s RAISE Act