Big Data World: From Privacy to Accountability

Paul Zhao
4 min readFeb 18, 2022

Why the “notice and consent” model is broken, and what we can do about it instead.

data privacy and security
Credit: Maria Fadeeva

The Problem with Consent-driven Privacy Models

For as long as we can remember, the fundamental tenets of privacy regulation was to put folks in control of their own data by deciding three basic things:

  1. whether to share…

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Paul Zhao

Father, husband, former entrepreneur, corporate PM. I’m constantly looking for diversions to keep the neurons firing, if only a little.