How can anybody disagree with the notion of trying carefully thought out, new approaches to create a cleaner internet, particularly in these times of repeated privacy and security breaches? While it’s common for people to suggest government regulation or splitting up large tech companies, the alternative of relying on a collective approach to solving some of the internet’s most vexing problem – especially given that the internet was born of the collective – is compelling.Īnd how can anybody disagree with the idea of bringing the compliant companies together to commit to a cleaner internet, and help them rally behind standards that protect consumers while also fostering a prosperous internet business? Certainly the students at Duke seemed skeptical that government regulation – a country by country approach that could take eons to take root – could solve the global problem of internet security and privacy. And it’s no longer a surprise to me (though I admit to not knowing what to expect when I first started talking about our perspective). Given the mandate of the students, I asked for feedback on our approach and requested their help and support in joining our movement for a safer internet.Īs seems to be the case wherever the mission is discussed, whether at Wharton, Duke, conferences, or at informal cocktail parties and dinner table conversation, nodding heads were the general reaction to the collective, self-regulatory, consumer protection approach that CleanAppsorg proposes to make the internet safer.
One such solution is the approach: addressing consumer privacy and security in a way that helps responsible businesses thrive while bringing a new measure of accountability to unethical businesses that leave consumers high and dry.Given the public’s appetite for change, there’s an opportunity to propose transformational solutions that could preserve the very best of the internet economy while helping extinguish the worst.This is a particularly extraordinary moment in time, as public frustration and anger over the poor state of security and privacy on the internet has reached an all-time high.Although I grew up down the road in Chapel Hill and am an inveterate University of North Carolina fan, and therefore a fierce foe of Duke University, I happily shelved my sports allegiances for a rich two-hour discussion with Governor Raskin and her super switched-on class firm. It was a great honor and privilege to be there. And the problem the firm is set up to solve? The variety of cybersecurity ills that plague society, with a focus on innovative solutions that feature new approaches and that draw on diverse perspectives.
The class is an unusual one: the students come from an array of disciplines (computer science, economics, public policy, and law), and is set up as a consulting firm with society as its client. Department of Treasury and former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Sarah Bloom Raskin, I spoke two weeks ago to a cybersecurity class that Governor Raskin is teaching at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. At the invitation of former Deputy Secretary of the U.S.
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