The emergence of privacy companies. Privacy as a competitive advantage?
summary
Startups prove demand: encrypted messaging app Streamer doubles users and revenue within a week after WhatsApp acquisition, Protonet raises €1.5M in 10 hours via crowdfunding for a personal server, and Blackphone hardware sells out with carrier interest and a newspaper-claimed plan for 10 million units. Business models vary from free apps exploring premium tiers to paid enterprise and hardware sales; security practices include public source code and a bug bounty $10k–$100k. New regulation drives hiring of ~10,000 privacy officers.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Privacy companies as advantage
- 5:02Dutch privacy innovation research
- 11:03Silent Circle’s secure telephony
- 15:21Protonet’s crowdfunding success
- 23:53Wicker’s privacy messaging
- 30:58EU regulation’s impact on privacy
- 42:11Market and government role in privacy
- 53:27Q&A on privacy value
- 1:02:51Open source and privacy rights
- 1:11:45Closing remarks
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