SXSW 2020

How Emerging Tech's Solving Zuck's Privacy Problem

From Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal to questions surrounding FaceApp’s popular Age filter, it seems like consumers can’t make any moves in the “cloud” without sacrificing personal data to the Big Tech “gods.” But it’s not all hopeless: emerging tech players from across the globe are fixing Big Tech’s failures using decentralized solutions, creating services that are not based around capturing and exploiting user data. This panel of innovators along with an international academic will talk about how to remove ambiguity to give consumers the peace of mind that their private information isn’t being used for anything other than what is “printed on the tin.”