2025-01-24
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Were you really a bouncer at Limelight in New York?
Yeah, I was, about 1990.
I used to date a tall girl there as well.
She had bleached white hair.
I had bleached white hair as well.
So it's a natural progression from being a bouncer at Limelight to becoming an expert on privacy.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm Dena Temple Rasted and this is Click Here's Mic Drop.
A longer listen to one of our favorite interviews of the week.
On Tuesday, we told you about an Australian surveillance law that requires tech companies to build back doors for law enforcement just for the asking.
The law, known as tola, is now considered one of the strictest surveillance laws in the world.
Which may be why, when the parliament in Australia imposed a sweeping ban on social media for kids under 16 back in late 2024, no one was that surprised.
Privacy advocate John Payne says no one seems sure how it will actually work.
The government has this view that by putting a ban on social media, that when this bill becomes law in one year's time, kids will come, you know, flooding back onto the sporting fields around the country to play football and play cricket and golf and basketball.
It's like, no, you know, it's not going to happen.
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