En op bovenstaande nog wat verder quoten:
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So, I think part of the answer here is just people knowing ahead of time what’s going on. People knowing how their data’s being used. Much greater transparency in terms of its potential for migrating over into some sales-and-marketing scheme of somebody else’s.
And the more transparent we are, the more customers can make a choice. There are circumstances — I’ll give one specific example that I talked a while back, about … educational technologies being sold and put into schools. And then it turns out that some kid who’s going online to communicate with their teacher — their data is going to some marketing company that then sells to the kid. I think that’s got to be off-limits. So there are going to be some areas where we just say no, even if the consumer is aware of it ahead of time.
But does it have any teeth, really? I mean, Europe is very strong on these things, and doing a lot of investigations into Google and Facebook and other companies.
In defense of Google and Facebook, sometimes the European response here is more commercially driven than anything else. As I’ve said, there are some countries like Germany, given its history with the Stasi, that are very sensitive to these issues. But sometimes their vendors — their service providers who, you know, can’t compete with ours — are essentially trying to set up some roadblocks for our companies to operate effectively there.
Interesting.
We have owned the Internet. Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete. And oftentimes what is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
Let’s talk about owning it. We have invented the Internet, we have created the most important technology companies. Losing that rapidly to other companies. Education, STEM, visas, all kinds of things, bringing the best talent here. Right now, diversity is another issue, especially women.
Right.
How do you look at this? How do we change the equation here? Because many people feel that, even though we’ve got this strong industry, we’re losing on lots of ground.
First of all, we’re not losing it rapidly. But what is true is that our lead will erode if we don’t make some good choices now. STEM education, huge priority. Homegrown — we’ve got to have our kids in math and science, and it can’t just be a handful of kids. It’s got to be everybody. Everybody’s got to learn how to code early.
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Ik zou zelf eerder zeggen dat
And oftentimes what is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
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Correctie: Bovenstaande is natuurlijk naar europese providers, maar hij heeft wel een punt natuurlijk