S2E21: Containing Big Tech, Federal Privacy Law, & Investing in Privacy Tech with Tom Kemp (Kemp Au Ventures)

This week’s guest is Tom Kemp: author; entrepreneur; former Co-Founder & CEO of Centrify (now called Delinia), a leading cybersecurity cloud provider; and a Silicon Valley-based Seed Investor and Policy Advisor. Tom led campaign marketing efforts in 2020 to pass California Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, (CPRA), and is currently co-authoring the California Delete Act bill.

In this conversation, we discuss chapters within Tom’s new book, Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our CIVIL RIGHTS, ECONOMY, and DEMOCRACY; how big tech is using AI to feed into the attention economy; what should go into a U.S. federal privacy law and how it should be enforced; and a comprehensive look at some of Tom’s privacy tech investments. 

Topics Covered:

• Tom's new book - Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy and Democracy
• How and why Tom’s book is centered around data collection, artificial intelligence, and competition. 
• U.S. state privacy legislation that Tom helped get passed & what he's working on now, including: CPRA, the California Delete Act, & Texas Data Broker Registry
• Whether there will ever be a U.S. federal, omnibus privacy law; what should be included in it; and how it should be enforced
• Tom's work as a privacy tech and security tech Seed Investor with Kemp Au Ventures and what inspires him to invest in a startup or not
• What inspired Tom to invest in PrivacyCode, Secuvy & Privaini 
• Why having a team and market size is something Tom looks for when investing. 
• The importance of designing for privacy from a 'user-interface perspective' so that it’s consumer friendly
• How consumers looking to trust companies are driving a shift left movement
• Tom's advice for how companies can better shift left in their orgs & within their business networks

Resources Mentioned:

• The California Consumer Privacy Act (amended by the CPRA)
• The California Delete Act

Guest Info:

• Follow Tom on LinkedIn
• Kemp Au Ventures
• Pre-order Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our CIVIL RIGHTS, ECONOMY, and DEMOCRACY 

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