Network World reports on an industry panel’s concerns about the effect government regulation could have on innovation. Speakers at a recent CES 2013 panel titled “The Smartphone-Tablet Economy: Apps, Devices, Commerce and the Consumer Obsession” also discussed consumer expectations—including whether young people care about privacy, online tracking and the negative impact the “bad players” have on industry as a whole. Meanwhile, a second panel discussed how to “make people feel safer about where their data is being stored” when it comes to the cloud, among other topics. Mozilla’s lead privacy engineer suggested introducing transparency and matching data privacy and management to user expectation, which he said may be difficult but is in industry’s “best interests.”
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