The Data Diva E48 - Jon von Techzner and Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Jon von Techzner CEO of Vivaldi Technologies and creator of the Vivaldi Web Browser, also Former CEO of Opera (web browser). We discuss his work on the early internet, the evolution of web browsing from the 1990s to today, his experience growing the Opera web browser to a 350 million user base, the fundamentals of respecting the data privacy rights of consumers, the challenges of inference, the problem with consumer consent, cookies, and web tracking, data monetization by companies who have consumer data, cookie cases in the EU, why he created the Vivaldi browser, the ethics gap with data privacy, the need for regulation, third party data starting and his wish for data privacy in the future. Support the show