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Now the problem is that the current policy mechanisms we have to protect ourselves from the abuses of personal information are like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
ES: We also heard in Congressional testimony last year, it was an amazing thing for someone like me who came from the NSA and who's seen the actual internal documents, knows what's in them, to see officials testifying under oath that there had been no abuses, that there had been no violations of the NSA's rules, when we knew this story was coming.
What's amazing about this, this report, that didn't get that much attention, is the fact that not only were there 2,776 abuses, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, had not seen this report until the Washington Post contacted her asking for comment on the report.
We see it even in the gambling industry that once picked up on this phenomenon of the near win and created these scratch-off tickets that had a higher than average rate of near wins and so compelled people to buy more tickets that they were called heart-stoppers, and were set on a gambling industry set of abuses in Britain in the 1970s.
Think warfare, corruption, human rights abuses.
While building the organization in London, we've been traveling undercover to places where a community was suffering from abuses, where mass atrocities were happening, and there was a lack of reporting.
Fatuma is part of a network of women that are fighting abuses in Kenya.
The uses and abuses of this technology aren't limited to the United States.
They cofounded an organization called the National Guest Worker Alliance, and through this organization, they have wound up helping other workers bring to light exploitation and abuses in supply chains in Walmart and Hershey's factories.
Let me just go down a very few abuses of women that concern me most, and I'll be fairly brief, because I have a limited amount of time, as you know.
But I hope that out of this conference, that every woman here will get your husbands to realize that these abuses on the college campuses and the military and so forth and in the future job market, need to protect your daughters and your granddaughters.
But yeah, for 30 years I've been writing stories about abuses of power, and when I say the powerful people over there in the military, or in the pharmaceutical industry, everybody applauds me.
I think the solution to any of these types of situations, any rights abuses, are really dependent on two things.
Yet along with the growth of the industry, there have been horrific abuses of human rights.
But the process is generally understood to be reserved for serious abuses of power.
Theoretically, the U.S. government is already designed to prevent abuses of power, limiting different branches through a system of checks and balances, term limits, and free elections.
But it's best addressed with legislation targeting those specific abuses, not an entire industry.
They're removing everything from documentation of human rights abuses, lectures about copyrights and search results that point to criticism of this new Article 13.
Basically, we face an enormous and growing number of gigantic, existential global challenges: climate change, human rights abuses, mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, weapons proliferation.
Those abuses went on for three months.
He was the one that stopped those abuses you saw, because when he saw those images, he turned them over to a senior investigating officer.
He had gone to his boss one morning and said, "Let's do something about human rights abuses in China."
And his boss had replied, "We can't do anything about human rights abuses in China because we have trade relations with China."
Photojournalist Robin Hammond has documented some of these abuses ... in Uganda, in Somalia, and here in Nigeria.
But even more mundane abuses of language can affect the way we think about things.
But the history of surveillance is one that includes surveillance abuses where this sensitive information has been used against people because of their race, their national origin, their sexual orientation, and in particular, because of their activism, their political beliefs.
The history of surveillance abuses is not the history of one bad, megalomaniacal man.
And back then, you famously said, by calling out human right abuses, you said, "Look, there are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you're neutral, you are an accomplice."
Although Prospero was wronged by Antonio, he has long inflicted his own abuses on the island, hoarding its magical properties and natural re-sources for himself.
But when it comes to humans, we say human rights abuses, because we assume that all humans have rights.
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