Big Idea: Having gone from helping a couple of students incorporate their company to Sillicon Valley's most powerful lawyer, Drummond has a front - row seat to history, overseeing the search giant's corporate deals as well as the public - policy issues embroiling the search
giant around privacy and national security.
Not exact matches
A plan to mine data from Commonwealth Games visitors who use free and fast wifi in Australia was abandoned Thursday as a
privacy scandal swirls
around social media
giant Facebook.
If online
giants such as Facebook — whose lifeline is data — can be compromised, then the worrying implication is that organisations
around the world are not doing enough to protect
privacy, a new PwC global report warns.
Facebook's chief operating officer says the company is taking steps to be more transparent about how its data gets used — and misused — and apologized for the
privacy scandal involving a Trump - connected data - mining company that has been swirling
around the social media
giant.
Rather than overstating elements
around the issue or simply telling people to delete their accounts, a thorough rethink of data
privacy as a concept as well as an overhaul of the business models that built these tech
giants is what is sorely needed.