Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a law professor and author who studies privacy and policing in the digital age, joins to unpack how everyday tech creates constant self-surveillance. He discusses why law lags behind fast-changing data collection, how devices and data brokers feed policing, the rise of AI-powered real-time monitoring, and proposed legal reforms and corporate design choices to limit abuse.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a George Washington University law professor and author on policing and surveillance. He discusses the spread of sensor-driven data from smart devices and how it weakens privacy protections. They cover risks like domestic and reproductive surveillance, legal and judicial fixes, and the 'tyrant test' approach to designing safeguards.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, law professor and surveillance expert, discusses how our devices become courtroom evidence. He covers pacemaker data used to convict, AI-powered real-time crime centres, surveillance at protests, gaps in Fourth Amendment protections, and his “tyrant test” idea for designing stronger data limits.