We live in weird times. Elon Musk is looking foolish after buying Twitter for far more than it is worth, and yet he bought it. Zuckerberg is burning billions(!!) on the Metaverse with the hope that they can create a monopoly over this future market. Business leaders are making tremendous bets on owning the social networks of the future and yet they are all fighting against the current being set by social media users.
While each passing generation has become more technologically literate, the children of that generation perniciously find ways to hide their behavior on the internet in ways that the parents couldn’t predict. This current generation of children has proliferated the use of finsta to hide a specific aspect of their personality behind private accounts. Usually these aspects of their personality are around underage drinking or smoking… but that’s irrelevant to the point I’m trying to make.
The trend seems to be that we either have already reached an inflection point, soon we will create a generation that values their privacy enough to subscribe to systems that are private.
Can a product’s privacy be provable?
- Google Glass flopped, why?
- What other attempts have been made?
- Magic Leap
- Snapchat Lens
- Snap Glasses
- The Vision Pro
- The Facebook Raybans
- Bold assumptions I’m going to make going forward
- The problem of a hardware computing device having enough computer power to perform advanced tasks will be solved
- People care about not being constantly tracked? What are the economics around opting out of tracking?
- Consumers will provide some sort of incentive for companies to really create privacy.
- That or governments will enforce privacy much more strictly than they currently do
- The product I would like to see:
- Never gives data to a central entity without consent
- Establishes universal symbols for consent to data recording
- When there isn’t consent, removal of people from photos is done artfully
finsta: Fake Instagram accounts