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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.
Hopefully an audio recording of the full meeting will leak. If for no other reason than irony.
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.
There is one item on the agenda:
"How do we get government to stop bothering us about privacy?"
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
How many people does it take to sit around a board room and say "yes, we are all for privacy as long as you aren't keeping things private from us" ... then a round of "harrumph harrumph" .... Then they agree to make the data available between the members of their group and in all outward facing meetings appear adversarial about sharing information with anyone ;)
Yeah, every few years, a group of representatives meet and vote to continue it. So far, it hasn't gotten anyone voted out of office, so they see no reason to stop. Some polls show more Americans support surveillance than oppose it, so this is a losing battle.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
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 ...
Push encrypted email support across all tech companies.
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.
Apparently some people still have some. They will be working diligently to rectify that.
"How can we get them to stop?"
#DeleteChrome