This week’s guest is Tom Kemp: author; entrepreneur; former Co-Founder & CEO of Centrify (now called Delinia), a leading cybersecurity cloud provider; and a Silicon Valley-based Seed Investor and Policy Advisor. Tom led campaign marketing efforts in 2020 to pass California Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, (CPRA), and is currently co-authoring the California Delete Act bill.
In this conversation, we discuss chapters within Tom’s new book, Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our CIVIL RIGHTS, ECONOMY, and DEMOCRACY; how big tech is using AI to feed into the attention economy; what should go into a U.S. federal privacy law and how it should be enforced; and a comprehensive look at some of Tom’s privacy tech investments.
Topics Covered:
- Tom's new book - Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy and Democracy
- How and why Tom’s book is centered around data collection, artificial intelligence, and competition.
- U.S. state privacy legislation that Tom helped get passed & what he's working on now, including: CPRA, the California Delete Act, & Texas Data Broker Registry
- Whether there will ever be a U.S. federal, omnibus privacy law; what should be included in it; and how it should be enforced
- Tom's work as a privacy tech and security tech Seed Investor with Kemp Au Ventures and what inspires him to invest in a startup or not
- What inspired Tom to invest in PrivacyCode, Secuvy & Privaini
- Why having a team and market size is something Tom looks for when investing.
- The importance of designing for privacy from a 'user-interface perspective' so that it’s consumer friendly
- How consumers looking to trust companies are driving a shift left movement
- Tom's advice for how companies can better shift left in their orgs & within their business networks
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