Do People Care About Privacy? - AVC

...there’s opportunities for better governance and data/privacy within companies, for users to secure themselves through more private alternatives to traditional technologies and services

The old ideals of free flow of, access, and sharing of information that propelled the open movement in the early 2000s are ill-equipped to address the challenges of the modern internet related to the surveillance and profiling of users and the add-based business model of companies that dominate the internet landscape. Because of the evolution of th... See more

And they are using that data to make more money off of us. We used to trade time for value. Now we trade our privacy for value. Furthermore, the companies that accumulate this data are getting more sophisticated at using it to capture more of our data, and more of our time. NBC could only send out one program at a time, and it had to do its best to

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APIs for differential privacy: While the transition is far from complete, privacy is slowly moving from a “save your ass against GDPR/CCPA ” to a feature set that consumers and enterprise users demand from applications. While some companies like Transcend and BigID help enterprises navigate existing PII and non-PII data, why collect it in the first... See more