Silicon Valley Execs Will Meet on Wednesday To Discuss Privacy (axios.com) 52
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.
Private meeting (Score:2)
By invitation only.
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Hopefully an audio recording of the full meeting will leak. If for no other reason than irony.
Beating Your Wife (Score:4, Insightful)
This is kind of like a bunch of men getting together to discuss wife beating issues.
The solution is obvious...stop doing it.
Re:Beating Your Wife (Score:4, Insightful)
"How can we keep doing this without pissing people off?"
The only thing that will be discussed.
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Business ethics in a nutshell.
Seriously. It's all about pissing off the fewest people.
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It's all about pissing off the fewest people.
Or rather, the people that are in the position to harm their income. It's ok for them to piss off the users (as long as they still come back), but they don't want the legislators on the wrong foot.
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Ehh, it's more-complex than that. Today's dialogue includes a lot of freaking out about people just giving Facebook all their information; it seems obvious we all enjoy the great benefits from this whole "you know everything about all of us and can bring us together and recommend new and exciting news we like" thing. The privacy problems are sort of the trade-off.
All technology is about investing less in production. Privacy is a cost--if it didn't create difficulties, it wouldn't matter--and so it stan
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This is kind of like a bunch of men getting together to discuss wife beating issues.
The solution is obvious...stop doing it.
Yes, this. Wish I had mod points. Isn't it more like a bunch of wife-beating men getting together to discuss wife beating issues?
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Silicon Valley Execs like their privacy; it's yours they have a problem with.
Such delicious paradoxes (Score:5, Insightful)
A meeting of the foxes to discuss henhouse security.
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Very good description of the issue.
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People are upset about how much their privacy is being violated by us and companies like ours. Let's discuss what we can do to calm them down and distract them so they'll forget all about their silly little 'privacy rights' again, so we can continue to collect and monetize their data. After all our business model depends on being able to sell those data products!
Foxes guarding the henhouse (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Did anyone (Score:2)
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On the agenda (Score:3)
"How do we get government to stop bothering us about privacy?"
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Yes sir, we are all strongly opposed to privacy! (Score:2)
One request (Score:5, Interesting)
Moar lobbyists (Score:2)
Read that carefully: "government affairs officers" - this is lobbyists saying the only way to suppress the voice of the people (and avoid new regulation and ongoing enforcement) regarding privacy is to hire MOAR lobbyists.
yes (Score:3)
A few people still demand to be given privacy (Score:3)
"How can we get them to stop?"
We are the product, not the customer (Score:1)
Don't forget, to them, we are the product they sell to corporations, not the customer.
It's only in the Western US, Canada, and the EU/UK that governments are willing to insist on privacy rights.
AT&T (Score:2)
what is there to discuss? (Score:2)
have they lost all common sense, that they need to discuss this? they can't figure it out on their own?
i think the real reason for this meeting is something very, very different (in their advantage).