Friday, March 27, 2015

Privacy and the War on Drugs

Thursday, April 2, 2015, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

For the next meeting we will try a new format. Rather than focusing on one topic, we revisit an old topic and introduce a new one. This way we can go into greater depth while keeping in mind the big picture. You could say we will both Zoom-In and Pan.

For the first hour of the next meeting, we will continue the topic of privacy from the last meeting. For those that missed that meeting HERE is the TED Talk that introduced the topic. Here is another TED Talk by Glenn Greenwald which goes into greater detail. 

For the last half hour, we cover one of the skipped topics that was on the list from our previous meeting. I thought all the topics on the list were good but we just did not have the time to cover all of them. So I am just picking the War on Drugs, just to get the new format going.

For those curious about the other popular topic on the list, Race Relations, we will cover that topic in May so that it will fit into Sherman's schedule, who volunteered to lead the discussion. We will also work-in the meetings by Tim, Norm and Bill, which were cancelled due to bad weather.

1 comment:

  1. We just learned that the co-pilot that crashed the Germanwing flight hid his depression from his employers. Is privacy overrated?

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