The Importance of Privacy & The Power of Anonymizers: A Talk With Lance Cottrell from Ntrepid

 The Social Network Show welcomes Lance Cottrell to the June 30, 2014 episode.

Lance Cottrell, an expert in crytography, online privacy and internet security talks about companies with large databases not anonymizing the data correctly; who is collecting data from these databases; what you can do to protect yourself on your computer and your mobile devices; and the implications of being traceable and not having privacy. If you have concerns about your privacy, this is an important show to listen to.

Lance Cottrell is the founder and principle at Obscura Security. He founded Anonymizer Inc. in 1995, and is an internationally recognized expert in cryptography‚ online privacy‚ and Internet security. Before that he created the Mixmaster anonymous remailer in 1993. He is a frequent public speaker at conferences such as the RSA Security Conference, Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference‚ the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe‚ ISS World. He is principal author on multiple Internet privacy and security technology patent applications. He took Anonymizer to a very successful exit in 2008, and is now chief scientist of Ntrepid, the acquiring company. He holds a MS in Physics from the University of California, San Diego and a BS in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Check out what Lance has to say about security on his blog, The Privacy Blog