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Roadmap: Data Privacy Engineering
Despite the fact that many of the largest and most dominant tech firms in the world are data businesses, there are not many resources on the what, how and why of this business model.
Abraham Thomas • The Economics of Data Businesses
Privacy tech is hot, but it’s unclear what consumers’ willingness to pay or care is. Right now, companies make money and scale faster delivering enterprise solutions. GDPR and CCPA compliance is top of mind, along with the desire to mitigate legal risk. Some products in the space sit as wrappers or analytics layers on existing data assets — BigID o... See more
Aashay Sanghvi • Observations & Notes - February 2020
Given that break-ins into corporate networks are now routine (and sometimes state-sponsored), the idea that data is somehow safer behind the corporate firewall is absurd. The only way to effectively secure data is strong encryption combined with rigorous hygiene around key management and access controls. This can be done as effectively in the cloud
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
And the data held on traffic from ride-sharing and GPS/mapping companies could transform approaches for traffic safety and congestion. But opening up that data to researchers requires careful planning.
DJ Patil • Ethics and Data Science
Payment may also incentivize people to share data about themselves and thus further degrade privacy. Because those least able to forego income face added pressure to sell their data, propertarian approaches risk transforming privacy into an even greater privilege than it is today.
Salomé Viljoen • Data as Property? | Phenomenal World
The second road is learning to navigate existing systems more consciously. This means:
- Teaching digital literacy that goes beyond privacy concerns to understand attention dynamics and how you might be getting trapped by your preferences
- Developing cross-platform resilience for creators and businesses
- Creating ways to archive and preserve digital cultu