OPEN Silicon Valley Forum
Mountain View, CA | June 2, 2012
Online privacy concerns have confounded many an entrepreneurs and taken some off-guard. The recent episodes of Path address book uploads, Apple UDID ban, Google privacy policy change, Safari cookie bypass, Facebook timeline launch, and Target predicting teenage girls’ pregnancies before their families do have all put online privacy front and center in the media, with federal regulators and legislators on the Hill taking note of every single move of these companies. While the concerns around social networks and mobile applications eroding our privacy, reputation, and trust are being voiced, it must be balanced with the reality that online information sharing using innovative technologies presents unprecedented opportunities for the community. Both these dimensions are often considered at odds with each other, leading many- especially the entrepreneurs- to question if online privacy issues can put a brake on the innovation engine fueled by big data technologies.
I was a panelist.
Ashkan Soltani 