Last December, it was my pleasure to take part in a great event, “The Disruptive Competition Policy Forum,” sponsored by Project DisCo (or The Disruptive Competition Project). It featured several excellent panels and keynotes and they’ve just posted the video of the panel I was on here and I have embedded it below. In my remarks, I discussed:
- benefit-cost analysis in digital privacy debates (building on this law review article);
- the contrast between Europe and America’s approach to data & privacy issues (referencing this testimony of mine);
- the problem of “technopanics” in information policy debates (building on this law review article);
- the difficulty of information control efforts in various tech policy debates (which I wrote about in this law review article and these two blog posts: 1, 2);
- the possibility of less-restrictive approaches to privacy & security concerns (which I have written about here as well in those other law review articles);
- the rise of the Internet of Things and the unique challenges it creates (see this and this as well as my new book); and,
- the possibility of a splintering of the Internet or the rise of “federated Internets.”
The panel was expertly moderated by Ross Schulman, Public Policy & Regulatory Counsel for CCIA, and also included remarks from John Boswell, SVP & Chief Legal Officer at SAS, and Josh Galper, Chief Policy Officer and General Counsel of Personal, Inc. (By the way, you should check out some of the cool things Personal is doing in this space to help consumers. Very innovative stuff.) The video lasts one hour. Here it is:
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