EP11: The Internet Bends Toward Privacy: Michelle Finneran Dennedy, PrivacyCode

Making Data Better

Privacy has been a major casualty of the Internet. Twenty five years ago Silicon Valley leading light, Sun’s CEO Scott McNealy said we “have zero privacy. Get over it.” And that has been the truth ever since and the profits basis for AdTech behemoths Google, Meta, and more.
The good news is that, in the quarter century since advertising became the Internet’s business model, few have gotten over it, including powerful national and regional regulators.
In this wide-ranging discussion with Steve and George, Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO of PrivacyCode, Inc. and Partner at strategy consulting firm Privatus.Online
speaks to this shift toward restoring online privacy and what her company is doing to streamline implementation of privacy enhancing practices.
In this Making Data Better episode, Michelle addresses:

• The immorality of Data Subject Access Requests
• Ethics vs. zero trust
• The impossibility of privacy regulation compliance
• AdTech’s shifting model
• The liability tornado about to strike data hoarding enterprises

This is an important and exciting conversation. Take a listen.

Chapters

1. EP11: The Internet Bends Toward Privacy: Michelle Finneran Dennedy, PrivacyCode (00:00:00)

2. Privacy and Data (00:00:23)

3. Data Privacy and Innovation in Tech (00:05:46)

4. The Future of Data Protection (00:15:33)

5. Privacy and Data Governance Solutions (00:18:46)

6. Ethical Frameworks in AI Regulation (00:31:48)

7. Embracing Privacy for Business Success (00:44:27)