A GDPR ripple effect will help bring internet privacy back from the dead, Jon Callas predicts
Despondent internet users who love the convenience smartphones have brought but regret losing control of their data have reasons to be optimistic, according to a veteran technology industry executive who left Silicon Valley to work for the American Civil Liberties Union. Jon Callas, a computer security expert who left Apple for the ACLU last year, said Monday it’s become too easy to become nihilistic about personal privacy because of the last decade of negative headlines about corporate data collection. But international rules and legislation have started to adjust for the digital age, Callas said, predicting that users will not tolerate constant location tracking and other tradeoffs made in the name of efficiency. “The good news is that the privacy situation has gotten so bad that people want to change it,” Callas said during a presentation at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. “That means that over the next five […]
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