Data Privacy
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
We Live to Build 
the MAD Podcast 
the a16z Podcast 
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6 statements about Data Privacy, every show
Wade: In-app sharing restrictions are pointless against screenshots and copy-paste
“If the user can hack it together, like if they wanted to share company information and they can copy and paste it, or they can screenshot it, If they want to, they can do it, right? So like, what would be the advantage of feature stopping them in that sense wh…”
Wang: Individual data privacy depends entirely on societal herd immunity
“Data privacy and anonymity and the, kind of, the idea that we can live private lives, that is contingent, it's kind of a herd immunity, right? So even if you turn off all your tracking stuff and you're a super, like, crypto nerd about all this stuff, if everyo…”
Homomorphic encryption is on the cusp of solving major privacy issues
“And the core technology that we have is something that's called homomorph encryption and it's been growing in, in many different spaces and a diff, couple different areas, but it's enabling and on the cusp of addressing all these very, kind of, serious issues …”
Traditional approaches to data security treat privacy and utility as zero-sum
“Generally there's been kind of like this all or nothing kind of approach, a zero sum game of providing a lot of privacy or providing a lot of utility from data, driving a lot of value.”
US data privacy failures are as severe as the opioid crisis
“I actually think privacy is Is an epidemic in this country as well, perhaps as big as the opioid crisis, that in plain sight over the past 10 or 20 years we let this problem occur, and we didn't know exactly what it meant until it was already out of the bag.”