Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks to Kara Swisher about systemic racism, regulating tech, and the divided Democratic Party on the Recode Decode podcast.
Among Buttigieg’s proposals for tech regulation: A national data privacy framework that guarantees the “right to be forgotten” from the internet; recognition of Uber drivers and other gig economy workers as employees with the right to unionize; and more aggressive scrutiny of companies like Facebook when they try to acquire smaller competitors like WhatsApp and Instagram.
Recode by Vox's 2019 Code conference, held at The Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, hosted hard-hitting interviews with a range of tech CEOs and influencers.
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