On January 5th of this year, The door was blown into the air Just minutes into an Alaska Airlines flight, a fire broke out on board a Boeing 737-9 MAX plane. No one was sucked out of the plane or injured, and the terrified crew managed to land the aircraft safely.
Within 24 hours, federal regulators took action to protect Americans from further risk. 171 aircraft were grounded It bankrupted a company operating on U.S. soil and halted further production within a month. The FAA told Boeing “Develop a comprehensive action plan to establish new standards for safety and company operations.”
In comparison, The number of teenagers in the U.S. is down by about 22. Every week, more than 100,000 people die from fentanyl poisoning — the same rate as a Boeing 737-9MAX with children on board crashing into a mountainside every 10 weeks.
The data shows Most of the young people are connecting with drug dealers on social media apps, especially Snapchat and Instagram, to buy dangerous and deadly drugs. However, unlike the swift and justifiable action taken by the FAA against Boeing, A series of safety deficienciesBut no federal agency has stepped in to take Snapchat or Instagram offline or require the companies to present plans to make their systems more secure.
Fentanyl is just one of many issues amplified by social media platforms that negatively impact the health, privacy and safety of Americans. con man, Child sexual abuse content, Sex blackmail scam, Extremist activity and Disinformation.
I have been researching, writing and advising governments about organized crime for decades. Five years ago I Online Crime Prevention Alliance As Americans prepare to elect their next president, there are stark differences in each candidate’s tech record and in how Democrats and Republicans are describing how they plan to govern the web in the future.
we analysis It’s unclear where each candidate stands on key issues, but unfortunately, neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump have committed to the systemic reforms the United States should make to its policies, laws, and institutions to protect people’s safety, privacy, and freedoms both online and in real life.
This includes legal reform to define the difference between illegal activity and protected freedom of expression, and to clearly define the boundaries between harmful speech, such as incitement, harassment and bullying, and freedom of expression.
In the age of Catfish and “deepfake” technology, we need to reform our outdated laws on counterfeiting and identity theft, and consider giving Americans a “right to be forgotten.” Europeans are already having fun.
We need to have important national discussions about how to best address the tricky trade-offs over privacy, data ownership, and encryption technology, as well as update our law enforcement procedures, government agencies, and federal grant programs for the digital age.
The rapidity with which new technologies have been brought to market over the past few decades contrasts with the slow pace at which the U.S. government and Congress have worked to address the myriad harms these technologies cause. It’s time to change that.
I urge both candidates to pledge to appoint a digital czar to lead a coordinated effort, working with Congress and federal agencies, toward a future in which our laws and policies are comprehensively reformed to protect the privacy, health, and safety of Americans.
Remember, computer code is made up of 1s and 0s. How we code our systems to work is up to us. Policy and law set the framework, not #BigTech billionaires.
Gretchen Peters is Online Crime Fighting Alliance.
