There was great discussion at a Techonomy conference around cyber security, personal data, privacy, and transparency around all the “free” services we use. Is it a fair value exchange of free service for our data, how tech companies use the information, who owns the information, and potential regulation and oversight of it all where some of the topics covered. There’s no definitive conclusion other then it’s complicated – self-regulation is unlikely to work – but it’s a good discussion for users and investors alike.
The conference streamed live about a week ago and all the videos were published this week. The video embedded below is the discussion mentioned above with Bill Gurley, Mark Rotenberg, and Hemant Taneja.
Here’s the direct link to the video: Internet Giants of the World.
You can find videos from the rest of the conference here, which includes the Mark Zuckerberg interview that got the ball rolling on Facebook’s fake news criticism this week.
No posts next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Be back in a week.
Last Call
- Amazon’s Next Big Move: Take Over the Mall – MIT Tech Review
- Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage – M. Housel
- How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down – M. Lewis
- How Your Brain Decides Without You – Nautilus
- Becoming an Expert: The Elements of Success – Farnam Street
- The Trump Effect on Markets: A Financial Analysis! – Musings on Markets
- Latest Marks Memo: Go Figure! (pdf) – H. Marks
- How to Make a Bad Decision (podcast) – Freakonomics
- These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers – ProPublica
- What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class – HBR
