TED英文演说-在庞大(且不受管制)的监控技术世界里中英文演讲稿.docx

第 第 PAGE 1 页 Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech 00:05 A few years ago, an American defense consultant I know told me about a trip he took to Uzbekistan. His role there was to help sell technology that the Uzbek government could use to spy on its own citizens. He eventually shared with me the marketing material hed presented to the Uzbek government. One glossy brochure featured technology that could not just intercept phone calls, but identify the caller, regardless of what phone number they were using, based on their unique voiceprint, and then identify their exact geographic location. 00:37 This is a guy who had been involved with the arms trade for years. He wasnt some Hollywood-type gunrunner doing backroom deals. He was just a guy that worked with legitimate Western companies to help sell their weapons abroad. But he wasnt bothered by marketing this sort of technology. For him, it was just the next step in the arms trade. And it was even easier than, say, selling weapons to Iraq, because it didnt require an export license from the US State Department, the way most arms sales would. It turns out that these tools of surveillance are almost completely unregulated, because as of today, theyre not defined as weapons. But they should be, and we need to regulate them that way. 01:14 Im a journalist who has spent the last two decades looking at how the military and intelligence world spurs the development of new science and technology. Ive tracked the emergence of new weapons and looked to see what happens when companies start to market these weapons abroad. But what is a weapon in the information age? We know that armed drones are weapons, missiles and bombs are weapons, but the State Department actually classifies broad categories of technologies as weapons. 01:39 So for example, a scientist going abroad on an oceanographic research vessel, they want to take the latest night-vision goggles? That, according to the State Department, i