Leadership, Privacy & Cybersecurity with Thom Hartmann

Join 12 Geniuses host Don MacPherson and Thom Hartmann as they discuss the loss of privacy and how that threatens individuals, companies, and democracy.

Thom Hartmann is a four-time winner of the Project Censored Award, a New York Times bestselling author of thirty-three books, and America’s #1 progressive talk radio show host. His most recent book is called “The Hidden History of Big Brother in America.”

In this episode, Thom and Don discuss how the removal of privacy has been a tool of autocratic governments to control citizens throughout history. In countries around the world, privacy continues to be taken away from people through new technologies. That threatens innovation, liberty, and democracy. An absence of privacy and the failure to protect sensitive data heightens the vulnerability to cyber attacks at the national level and cyber theft at the corporate level. Thom and Don end their discussion with why leaders in corporate and government positions need to be aware of the challenges that an absence of privacy creates and advice for how to respond in order to restore privacy to everyday employees and citizens.