The focus of computer technology historically has been on the manipulation and communication of data and information. Yes, there’s always been the monstrously obvious admonition of “garbage in, garbage out” when speaking of data. But as our dependence on data grows, the issues of data quality, of making data better, have grown in importance and complexity. Data, it turns out, is endlessly nuanced. Government Data Generation and Usage Government has an enormous interest in data. It is an iss...
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The focus of computer technology historically has been on the manipulation and communication of data and information. Yes, there’s always been the monstrously obvious admonition of “garbage in, garbage out” when speaking of data. But as our dependence on data grows, the issues of data quality, of making data better, have grown in importance and complexity. Data, it turns out, is endlessly nuanced. Government Data Generation and Usage Government has an enormous interest in data. It is an iss...
EP11: The Internet Bends Toward Privacy: Michelle Finneran Dennedy, PrivacyCode
Making Data Better
45 minutes
1 year ago
EP11: The Internet Bends Toward Privacy: Michelle Finneran Dennedy, PrivacyCode
Privacy has been a major casualty of the Internet. Twenty five years ago Silicon Valley leading light, Sun’s CEO Scott McNealy said we “have zero privacy. Get over it.” And that has been the truth ever since and the profits basis for AdTech behemoths Google, Meta, and more. The good news is that, in the quarter century since advertising became the Internet’s business model, few have gotten over it, including powerful national and regional regulators. In this wide-ranging discussion with Ste...
Making Data Better
The focus of computer technology historically has been on the manipulation and communication of data and information. Yes, there’s always been the monstrously obvious admonition of “garbage in, garbage out” when speaking of data. But as our dependence on data grows, the issues of data quality, of making data better, have grown in importance and complexity. Data, it turns out, is endlessly nuanced. Government Data Generation and Usage Government has an enormous interest in data. It is an iss...
