Privacy Concerns
As a co-founder of a company focused on bringing biometric matching to the masses, I sometimes encounter people who assume that I’m not interested in privacy. Admittedly the Department of Defense background doesn’t help. It’s a balance though – privacy is an issue I’m really interested in and we think about it often. I see great reasons for anonymity on the internet and in other places in the world but I also see it abused. Political speech is one example but by no means the only one. There are great use cases that support strong identity on the internet and in the world as well. When I’m reading a product review, I would like to know if the person writing the review is a real person. They are both right.
Alex and I talk about this often. Here’s an Ignite presentation he did a while ago on how to defeat biometric technology: