The Problem With Privacy Is How We Define It
There's a fundamental disconnect between how consumers define privacy and how the companies providing our digital communication tools define it.
More than half of Internet users in the U.S. are on social media. And while many people are concerned about their privacy, sharing our information on platforms like Facebook is the price we pay for being connected to our friends and family around the globe.
According to Jean Dobey, CEO of Virtual Artifacts, a company that creates technologies that empower consumers to protect their privacy online, we’re approaching the issue all wrong. Consumers aren’t ambivalent, the process is too complicated and people simply don’t have the patience to figure it out.
“Sure, people want their privacy,” Dobey says.
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