
CoinDesk Live: Understanding Our Digital Personas Feat. Alex McDougall
“If we don’t fix the data paradigm...we don’t really have free will,” says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures.
“If we don’t fix the data paradigm...we don’t really have free will,” says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures.
Our digital personas are becoming the primary way we interact with the world, particularly during this worldwide pandemic. But we only see a tiny bit of the information being captured while we’re online, and we rarely know what our personal data is being used for. While the majority of our economy is related to our personal data, there’s no interface to help us understand what we actually look like to data collectors and their customers.
Welcome to a reboot of CoinDesk Live: Lockdown Edition, a livestream series in which CoinDesk journalists and virtual audience members chat with speakers from Consensus: Distributed, our first virtual conference May 11-15.
In this kickoff episode, CoinDesk journalist Bailey Reutzel speaks with Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures about the data trails we leave behind when we surf the internet, and how users can take back some control of that data.
Bailey and Alex discuss:
Alex McDougall on Twitter: @AlexM_Bicameral
Bailey Reutzel on Twitter: @BLR13
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Sign up to join the next CoinDesk Live on Tuesday, April 21, with Priyanka Desai and Aaron Wright from The Lao as we discuss for-profit DAOs.
Then join us at Consensus: Distributed May 11-15.