The tech industry is still reeling from Donald Trump’s election to the White House earlier this week, with new statements from Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook already seeking to make sense of the president-elect. But as those conversations have played out, a lesser-known CEO was suggesting a more unorthodox response for tech companies in the Trump era: stop collecting so much data.
The comments came from Pinboard CEO Maciej Ceglowski, a longtime critic of data collection on the web. According to Ceglowski, the only sane response to a Trump presidency was to get rid of as much stored user data as possible. “If you work at Google or Facebook,” he wrote on Pinboard’s Twitter account, “please start a meaningful internal conversation about...
via The Verge
