Trevor Timm : How free is our freedom of the press?

                          

TED 2016

Trevor Timm : How free is our freedom of the press? (transcript)

Summary

In the United States, under the First Amendment, the press has the right to publish secret information in the public interest.

However, the press is unable to do this job that the First Amendment is supposed to protect because of the government’s expanded ability to spy on everyone. It's difficult to protect the identities of the brave men and women who get the news to the press.

That's why the speaker at Freedom of the Press Foundation is now developing an open-source whistleblower submission system. When you send information by using it, it'll be encrypted and stored on a server that only the news organization has access to. The government wouldn't be able to have any access to it.

If you are not the tech savvy whistleblowers, you can expose wrongdoing. The tools can help the brave men and women who expose crimes and for the press. All their right can be protected under the Constitution.

However, governments all over the world are constantly developing new spying techniques.

The tools are required to be more developed.  

Words in this story
encrypted / convert (information or data) into a cipher or code, especially to prevent unauthorized access.
whistleblower / a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity.