Advancing Digital Agency: The Power of Data Intermediaries
February 16, 2022
With the integration of screenless technology into everyday life, the data ecosystem is growing increasingly complicated, and mistrust pervades. New data collection methods bring benefits, but they can amplify the mistrust between people and technology.
Co-authored by Cybersecurity and Privacy co-leads Paula Barrett and Michael Bahar alongside the World Economic Forum’s Taskforce on Data Intermediaries, the groundbreaking insight report explores the potential to outsource human decision points to an agent or trusted intermediary to act on an individual’s behalf, with implications for many companies, including within the technology and financial sectors.
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