In a column for The Globe and Mail, Matthew Braga writes that despite the many surveillance revelations in a post-Snowden world, “little has changed within the start-up community in the last year when it comes to crafting privacy policies, anticipating government and law enforcement requests or adjusting to the reality of mass surveillance.” Envirolytic Insights CEO and CPO Jonathan Latsky said, “It is in my experience very rare that an entrepreneur leads (with) or even has much of a concept as to what privacy is all about.” Latsky noted entrepreneurs tend to inquire about capital, customers, employees and peer networks, adding, “I think it’s very rare that there are upfront requests as to how privacy—the handling of user information—how that plays into it.”
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