Stanford's Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising and Privacy last year was attended by executives from big valley tech companies, important privacy researchers and high-ranking government regulators. But one of the most influential people in the room was a graduate student in his mid-20s.
During a break at the "WiTap" conference, that student, Jonathan Mayer, flipped open his laptop to demonstrate his new privacy research. A knot of people gathered, including Edward Felten, chief technologist of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the privacy and antitrust watchdog over powerful companies like Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Facebook and Microsoft."Jonathan has done a lot of important research on understanding and measuring privacy practices," Felten said in a recent interview. "That certainly has had an impact on the public policy discussions" about Internet privacy.Read the full article at the original publication link below.
- Date Published:04/02/2012
- Original Publication:Mercury News