Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Facebook held its annual F8 developer conference this week and—in addition to the usual product updates—they repeatedly talked about creating and enabling private spaces.
Mark Zuckerberg wants to shift Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram to a privacy-first set of services while still maintaining profitability and a strong economic future for the company.
What's stopping them? 15 years of poor information management.
Most organizations have a binary view of information management. Folks internal to the organization can see most of the org's data and controls are in place to prevent external access.
But in 2019 and moving forward, we need better than that. Not just for compliance to things like GDPR but in order to properly secure that information in the first place.
References;
- F8 day 1 keynote, developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2019/day-1-keynote
- more on Dunbar's number, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Facebook held its annual F8 developer conference this week and—in addition to the usual product updates—they repeatedly talked about creating and enabling private spaces.
Mark Zuckerberg wants to shift Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram to a privacy-first set of services while still maintaining profitability and a strong economic future for the company.
What's stopping them? 15 years of poor information management.
Most organizations have a binary view of information management. Folks internal to the organization can see most of the org's data and controls are in place to prevent external access.
But in 2019 and moving forward, we need better than that. Not just for compliance to things like GDPR but in order to properly secure that information in the first place.
References;
- F8 day 1 keynote, developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2019/day-1-keynote
- more on Dunbar's number, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
