Why the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Necessary & Key to the Tech Future
Throughout time, humanity has been striving to improve its condition and circumstances. This striving has come in fits and starts. And at times, we fail in a big way…think war and starvation. But taken as a whole, human civilization has been steadily building and laying a foundation that has dramatically improved the lives of all people. The rule of law, freedom, democracy, human rights, property rights, education systems, legal systems, a free press, industrialization, science, and technology…these are the foundations of our modern society. Perhaps not always applied well and often imperfect, this foundation has, nonetheless, brought unprecedented well-being and a higher standard-of-living to billions of people. I believe we are working to add to this foundation today in the domains of energy sustainability and Information Technology (IT) as a utility. The problem we must deal with as a society, however, is that these foundations can undermine each other when one is pursued at the exp...