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Thanks so much for hosting this tonight, John. A very special occasion and opening of a new conversational thread, and critical for it to be situated within the NYC tech industry community like this.
It’s actually possible that NY State could pass a new data protection law even stronger than California’s. #TheGreatHack helps ignite interest in voters to demand data rights from Albany. NYC would birth a new data rights driven internet wired.com/story/new-york… by @issielapowsky
Getting bills in Statehouses squeezes the data industry by the balls so then they squeeze Mitch McConnell’s to even put preemption up for discussion. Gives voters some federalist leverage to extract concessions from the industry lobby in exchange for preemption. #TheGreatHack
A crucial US publication that published on UK data lawbreaking was @WIRED. That was because @issielapowsky was a massively important US journalist that helped break the real Cambridge Analytica story but so impressively manages to stay above the fray. wired.com/story/one-mans…
By staying above the fray, @issielapowsky can do things like break the Data Propria story. That’s a detail not in the #TheGreatHack but one that will certainly be in an inevitable sequel. wired.com/story/data-pro…
The Dems need their wizard of Oz who will beat Trump and then give the Tin Man his heart (care of duty), Scarecrow his brain (right to know), Lion his courage (right to object), and send Dorothy back to Kansas (free and fair elections again).
*If* the GOP championed data rights as a libertarian issue they could atone for the sins of Cambridge Analytica. But given the reported party line votes on the FTC settlement to exonerate Facebook…
