I think if you look at smartphones, the killer app is clearly messaging integrated with payments. "This is like a kind of a historic moment. US "godfather of crypto" currencies, David Chaum, meanwhile said he believed the digital world has reached a key juncture. The way ahead is "privacy by default," said Eich, touting data protection and adblock capabilities as key Brave attributes.Įich hopes Brave will have 10 million users by year's end, although he said that would have to double or even triple before it could generate revenues from opt-in online ads.
She warned that "it's going to be hard to get to the point of mass adoption" of products and services designed to allay privacy fears but sees a "wave of momentum" after a year-and-a-half of campaigning.īrendan Eich, founder of the Brave browser, as well as Mozilla and Firefox and the man behind JavaScript, observed: "small minorities can move markets, and that's happening". Kaiser co-created a foundation "Own your data" in order to "blow the whistle on the whole industry" and denounce abuses of companies harvesting data without web users' explicit knowledge. Kaiser's work at Cambridge Analytica is also a subject of a Netflix documentary, The Great Hack. "I believe there is an entire new industry around digital identity, data ownership, data management and data monetisation for yourself," said American Brittany Kaiser who helped lift the lid on data abuses at Cambridge Analytica which last year found itself embroiled in a scandal involving the misuse of Facebook data. There are many companies trying to make progress in this space," Cosgrave said. "Providing personalised encryption at the level of the device, so that any keystroke on your device is unreadable by a third party … is booming. "Undeniably, with the new tensions that exist, obviously there is a movement among people to regain their right to privacy," organiser Paddy Cosgrave told AFP. Now, a slew of tech entrepreneurs are bidding to turn growing consciousness about the problem into a money-making industry and many showcased their skills at this week's Web Summit in Lisbon. Whistleblowers and digital pioneers have long been sounding the alarm about abuses of our privacy online.
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