Tim Cook calls out “data-industrial complex”
Tim Cook took a clear stand for ideas very similar to the ones presented in this article describing Data Dignity ( https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-dignitya-more-on-point-concept-joe-lindsay/ ) ...
It was the highest profile statement from a leader of the highest of high profile technology companies.
Quoted from his speach:
"As far back as 1890, future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis published an article in the Harvard Law Review, making the case for a "Right to Privacy" in the United States.
He warned: "Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade."
Today that trade has exploded into a data industrial complex. Our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency."
SVP, CTO Open Data Platforms @ Experian | AI/ML Enablement
5yThe pace of discussion seems to be picking up ... Today here the Chief Data Officer for Mastercard says they are spending "hours on legal and ethical review of data " but this sounds no different than corporate accountability, not activism on behalf of the consumer: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2018/10/29/a-rising-crescendo-demands-data-ethics-and-data-responsibility/