The PATH to privacy

This article about Path really highlights a significant problem. Namely, the attitude among technology companies towards privacy. I’ve previously written about how Google doesn’t get it but it appears the attitude runs much farther. You really have to have somebody in the company “thinking Privacy.” It’s not just about regulatory compliance and making sure one’s privacy policy comports with actual practice, you have to examine “how is the market going to react” if they knew exactly what was going on. In law school ethics class, one of my professors used to tout the “what would my mother say” if I told her what I’d done. Companies need a privacy person acting as their internal brain sometimes.