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Silicon Valley Execs Will Meet on Wednesday To Discuss Privacy (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how to tackle growing questions and concerns about consumer privacy online. The Information Technology Industry Council, a Washington trade group that represents major tech companies, organized an all-day meeting to jump-start the conversations. Members include Facebook, Google, Apple, Salesforce, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, Dropbox, and others. ITI expects the meeting to be attended by companies across the industry's sectors, including hardware, software and device makers -- but declined to say which companies would be there.
A meeting of the foxes to discuss henhouse security.
For most of the companies listed, their entire business model is predicated on watching and recording every click and pageview online, and converting that into advertising (or selling that activity to other advertisers).
These companies can't possibly be trusted to guard our privacy, as our private behavior is their business.
It's funny, because all of the people making all of our data available to the government and to all of their internal processes and partners also oppose Donald trump ...
This is kind of like a bunch of men getting together to discuss wife beating issues.
The solution is obvious...stop doing it.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.