In the battle involving the most advanced technologies, the key to safeguarding privacy in an AI-driven world isn’t more regulations; it’s privacy tech. — Opinion piece by Lourdes M. Turrecha Research and edits by chatGPT-4 (artificial intelligence) and Travis Yuille (human intelligence) Let’s face it: artificial intelligence (AI) has a privacy problem. As AI permeates more of our daily lives, from chatbots and voice assistants to autonomous vehicles, AI’s privacy problems are dominating the…

Or How I Become Less of An Asshole To The People Around Me — In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month this May, I’m sharing 10 of my top mental health practices for keeping my mind healthy and myself happy. My mental health practices range from adequate sleep to psilocybin therapy. I’ve also included meditation, spending time in nature, self-care, and acts of kindness…

A Guide To RSA Conference, SXSW, Collision, SaaStr, Startup Grind, TC Disrupt, And Pretty Much Any Other Conference — Do conferences make you feel lost, overwhelmed, and a constant sense of FOMO? You’re bumping into hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people you don’t know. (Looking at you, RSA Conference!) You’re faced with overlapping conference talks but you end up missing the ones you really wanted to…

Instead, OpenAI, Google, and other AI labs should develop and train their AI systems while simultaneously innovating in privacy, security, ethics, trust, and safety — Future of Life recently published an open letter for AI labs to immediately halt the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, a call that was endorsed by Elon Musk and 20,000+ tech professionals. It was a call heard by the Italian data protection regulator (the Garante), which subsequently…

It affects you, me, and even the privacy and tech industries — Yesterday, POLITICO published a leaked draft SCOTUS opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Overnight, I (along many other friends, family members, and colleagues) struggled to process this heartbreaking news. In this post, I take time out of an incredibly busy day and week to outline Roe’s practical importance and how its…

The order particularly highlights the importance of privacy, which has been largely missing in developing Web 2.0 — Today, President Biden issued the Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, an important first step to ensure that the United States catches up in the (responsible) development of Web 3.0 technologies. My quick takeaways on the executive order Before I break down the executive order in the following sections, I’d like to share the…

A free, public resource listing privacy tech companies and their privacy tech product categories, for investors, prospective user-buyers, and anyone interested in finding privacy tech solutions — Originally published on The Rise of Privacy Tech website. As some of you may know, last month, we at The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT) published the TROPT Defining the Privacy Tech Landscape Whitepaper 2021, the foundational whitepaper on the privacy tech landscape.

Select highlights of exciting privacy tech industry trends and developments that happened this year — This post was originally published on The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT) website on December 27, 2021. At the TROPT Innovators December networking social (our last networking social for 2021!), TROPT advisors and leading privacy tech advisors and experts, Fatima Khan (Director, Corporate Counsel, Product and Privacy, Okta, Inc.) and…

The last post in a 7-part blog series on the foundational TROPT Defining the Privacy Tech Landscape Whitepaper 2021 — Originally published on The Rise of Privacy Tech website on December 26, 2021. Last month, we at The Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT) published the TROPT Defining the Privacy Tech Landscape Whitepaper 2021, the foundational whitepaper on the privacy tech landscape. In our first five posts in this series, we…