🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Prime Minister Addresses General Debate, 74th Session

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, addresses the general debate of the 74th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 24 – 30 September 2019). --------------------------- UN News: Mr. Johnson told the United Nations General Assembly’s annual general debate that the experience of Brexit was like Zeus’ eternal punishment of Prometheus. He said that “no one can ignore the gathering force affecting every Member of this Assembly” that is digitalization. Addressing the future of privacy, he said that while people may keep their personal secrets from friends, family, their doctors or others, “it takes real effort to conceal them from Google”. Citing the comprehensive and pervasive effects of this new technology, pushing humanity towards an “antiseptic urban environment”, he said in the future and even the present, it places every citizen under surveillance. A “future Alexa” of connectivity will monitor every aspect of daily human life. With a