He called technological innovation and automation "the most powerful forces in the world today" in a op-ed published in the Post announcing his 2020 run. Recently, he called for policies that reckon with job automation due to artificial intelligence.
This week, after the revelations of a hidden microphone in Google's Nest Guard product, Delaney told Business Insider that tech gadgets should be required to have ingredient labels, similar to food.
"We have requirements through the FDA on labeling. And so obviously there was a time in this country's history when we didn't have those things and society got more progressive in thinking about the needs of its citizens," he said.
"If there are implications in the device that relate to your privacy, it should be disclosed."
Delaney has also been vocal about the fallen Amazon headquarters in New York, calling the company's decision to abandon New York "a bad outcome" for the region. "The Amazon deal was jobs & Ds should be pro-jobs."
In the same thread he said the concentration of tech power is a matter of "federal policy."
Source: The Washington Post, Axios
The next Amazon is not often started by an ex Amazon employee. That's why Silicon Valley has so many startups. An ecosystem gets created. That was one of the benefits as well.
— John Delaney (@JohnDelaney) February 16, 2019