Privitar: How to Protect Private Data
Jason McFall, Chief Technical Officer at Privitar, gave a talk for the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training on 鈥淗ow to Protect Private Data鈥. Jason is responsible for Privitar鈥檚 research agenda, technology strategy and product development.
Jason McFall has spent over a decade leading teams building enterprise software to record, analyse and act in real-time upon large and complex sets of customer data.
Dame Wendy Hall聽introduced the talk, providing a bit of background about her own career and links to Privitar before another Jason, Jason Dupres, spoke about Privitar itself. Jason Dupres is the CEO of the company, and said that the Snowden leaks were the tipping point in his mind of when the public became worried about data privacy. Jason said although we鈥檙e moving towards a data-driven economy, people often don鈥檛 make good decisions about data.