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by proofofconcept
3680 days ago
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I'm glad that the general public is growing more aware of privacy issues but the more cynical part of my brain tells me that, since the government and a very large industry share an interest in eroding privacy as much as possible, putting stronger privacy protections into place won't be easy no matter how many people say that's what they want. I want to feel confident betting on privacy, I really do, but I won't until I see some evidence that growing public awareness is getting politicians to address privacy issues directly instead of brushing them aside to focus on other, politically sexier issues. |
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I think the debate comes more and more often in the public opinion, and I believe privacy will soon become something people will demand when they buy hardware and software, just like memory capacity or battery usage.
But we don't need to wait for politicians to move on this issue, we can already do a lot without tem! There is growing research on privacy-by-design algorithms, on which we work at my company Snips (https://snips.ai), which will ultimately prevent governments and companies to use data without having the explicit permission of users, what we believe is their right!