Having read the whole thing, it comes across as pretty high on the bland-corporate-speak spectrum, e.g.
> "For me, the first big revelation of data science was that data can be a key asset that offers real value. But, the second revelation was that data can be a liability if you're not a good shepherd for it."
Translation: "Targeted advertising has been highly profitable, but it's a problem when your target's credit card numbers, address, SSN, get are exfiltrated to a dark web broker."
> "End-to-end encryption would reduce risks to privacy and keep providers from seeing private messages, but it would also limit platforms' abilities both to respond to law enforcement requests and to perform content moderation."
Translation: "Governments want more power to snoop on citizen's hearts and minds, identify potential subversives at an early age, and control the spread of information, and if we (Big Tech) don't cooperate we won't get government contracts and might be targeted ourselves."
> "For me, the first big revelation of data science was that data can be a key asset that offers real value. But, the second revelation was that data can be a liability if you're not a good shepherd for it."
Translation: "Targeted advertising has been highly profitable, but it's a problem when your target's credit card numbers, address, SSN, get are exfiltrated to a dark web broker."
> "End-to-end encryption would reduce risks to privacy and keep providers from seeing private messages, but it would also limit platforms' abilities both to respond to law enforcement requests and to perform content moderation."
Translation: "Governments want more power to snoop on citizen's hearts and minds, identify potential subversives at an early age, and control the spread of information, and if we (Big Tech) don't cooperate we won't get government contracts and might be targeted ourselves."
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)