Google Hire, AI and the Privacy Paradox

In the recently released 2018 edition of her seminal annual Internet Trends report, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker recently discussed what she referred to as the ‘privacy paradox.’
She describes this phenomenon as the fact that while internet companies are “making low priced services better, in part, from user data,” and while internet users are “increasing time on internet services based on perceived value,” that same user data constitutes something of a devil’s bargain – essentially, in order to utilize platforms such as Facebook, or LinkedIn, or even Uber, users must essentially exchange their personal privacy in exchange for what amounts to, more or less, convenience and ease of use. As Meeker notes, there is a growing amount of legislation, regulations and consumer safeguards currently being implemented in order to protect the personal data and privacy of internet users from the services who collect and monetize this information, whether that’s through behavioral targeting or selling that data to third partyservices (the most notorious example of which, Cambridge Analytica, is likely the best example of Meeker’s ‘privacy paradox’ in action).
While Meeker seems to embrace a more robust online regulatory environment around personal data, her report also suggests that such regulation could have the potential to harm innovation hence another privacy paradox, wherein company growth and industry innovation could potentially be stifled by too many consumer protections and legislative constraints. Of course, most of these consumer protections and privacy regulations continue to regulate internet users outside of the United States, particularly in the European Union. With last month’s sweeping GDPR rules coming into effect to “harmonize data privacy laws across Europe,” according to the European Commission, individual nations have also acted accordingly. For example, Argentina first adopted rules regarding the ‘right to be forgotten’ (similar legislation has since been adopted by the European Commission, South Korea, and India, among other countries) in 2006. After a dozen years, this legislation, described in Article 43 of the Argentine “Habeas Data” code (gotta love that Latin), still seems progressive for much of the world, promises, “Any person shall file this action to obtain information on the data about himself and their purpose, registered in public records or databases, or in private ones intended to supply information; and in case of false data or discrimination, this action may be filed to request the suppression, rectification, confidentiality or updating of said data.”

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