Author Marietje Schaake tells ABC News about governments' responsibility.Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center, speaks during the AI Safety Summit 2023 at Bletchley Park, Nov. 1, 2023, in Bletchley, U.K.Marietje Schaake is a Dutch politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands between 2009 and 2019. She's also the international policy director at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center.
The former member of the European Parliament and international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center, Marietje Schaake, is out with a new book. It's called "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley." Marietje, thanks so much for being here today.ABC NEWS: So I think everyone is aware about tech in their daily lives or how it might impact the information that they learn. OK, I get my news from Facebook or YouTube. Democracy is this big, grand thing.
Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center, speaks during the AI Safety Summit 2023 at Bletchley Park, Nov. 1, 2023, in Bletchley, U.K.ABC NEWS: And one thing that you make a large note of is the fact that a lot of these decisions made by big tech companies have been made with not a lot of regulation behind them, that they've kind of been unchecked. And those decisions then have a massive impact.
SCHAAKE: Well, just where in many, many different places this plays a role. We see parents that are very worried about their kids spending too much time online and not knowing what's really happening there.
Using that as leverage toward greater transparency, greater cybersecurity, more public values that can be baked into the contracts that they already have for hundreds of millions of dollars.