Keynote: Data and Goliath - The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce Schneier is an excellent speaker and the topic of how we produce data as an exhaust in today’s society is extremely relevant. He talked in detail about how governments and company’s today analyze our every move and we are happily giving up this information by carrying around personal surveillance devices (cellphones).  He also pointed out that we share one world and one net and there is only one solution, either everybody gets privacy and security and it is built into the backbone or no one gets it.

In the end Mr. Schneier makes states the dualism of sharing data. We want information about traffic jams by sharing location data while driving. It would be incredible useful if we pooled all medical records and let researchers loose on it. However, this is incredible personal data and what we decide should be shared and how we managed data is a subject that we will be judged on by coming generations.