Hillary Clinton on Privacy and Data Protection

Hillary Clinton is one person on the world stage who most personally felt the impact of wikileaks  since she was the one who had to make the "apology tour" in late 2010 and early 2011.   She spoke in San Francisco  this morning on issues surrounding privacy of electronic data.   No transcript is available, but this account appears to be fair and balanced.

Hillary Clinton talks NSA and privacy, data security, tech jobs in San Francisco

Summary: "I'm not an expert on software-defined storage or the intricacies of cloud computing," Clinton quipped.

By Rachel King for Between the Lines | August 28, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO---Privacy and security are in a necessary but inevitable tension, reflected former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while speaking at data storage and software provider Nexenta's OpenSDx Summit on Thursday.

Proposing this debate has been going on in the United States since the days of the Founding Fathers (with Clinton trading out "privacy" for "liberty"), Clinton observed how concerns over privacy reached a fever pitch following the revelations about the National Security Agency last year.

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