Quick Notes

By Johannes Ernst

https://reb00ted.org/quick-notes/

• 2020-03-11

  Techlash: survey results

  • privacy
  • silicon valley
  • tech

  How is that for a name? Knight Foundation sponsored a Gallup poll about attitudes to today’s technology industry by American consumers. Some interesting nuggets in there, like 94% (!) are very concerned, or somewhat concerned, about the privacy of their personal data online.

• 2020-03-09

  Coronavirus, the great equalizer

  After infecting various Iranian officials, now the president of Portugal is in self-quarantine.

• 2020-03-06

  Proposal: Personal Data Use Licenses

  • privacy
  • personal
  • data

  Authored by fellow MyData Silicon Valley member Paul Jurcys and friends, and now published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.

• 2020-03-06

  Climate Neutral is now a brand

  Move over, Underwriters’ Lab and Bluetooth, there’s a new brand in town: is the product offsetting its carbon emissions?

  Link to Verge article.

• 2020-03-05

  Funding to fix the internet

  • betaworks
  • betalab
  • vc
  • incubator

  “The internet is broken. And yes, we tried turning it off and back on, but that didn’t work.” So they are funding early-stage startups as part of an incubator program to Fix The Internet. New York City.

• 2020-03-05

  $1.1b for SSI

  • identity
  • self-sovereign
  • market size
  • numbers

  According to this secondary source, this is Juniper Research’s market size prediction for Self-Sovereign Identity in 2024. This compares to $24b by 2025 for the entire IAM market according to Grand View Research.

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