Consumer Electronics Show shifts focus toward regulation and 'techlash'

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4.9 • 9 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

As nearly 200,000 entrepreneurs, software coders, sales people and journalists converged on Las Vegas this week for the world’s largest technology show – CES – there was broad acceptance that in the wake of the data protection scandals of the past year such as Cambridge Analytica, the tech industry is facing a “techlash,” with a growing sense of distrust and skepticism from the public and regulators. While US regulators were absent from this year’s CES because of the federal government shutdown, it was abundantly clear that there has been a sea change since CES 2018, with privacy issues taking center stage. The tech industry is “currently in a privacy perfect storm,” said Michael Petricone, the head of regulatory affairs for the Consumer Technology Association, which puts on the CES show.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another MLEX podcast. I'm Amy Miller, MLEX a senior privacy and data security reporter in San Francisco, California. We're podcasting today from CES, the world's largest technology show, held every year in Las Vegas with about 200,000 attendees.
0:27.2	Mike Swift, Mlex's chief global digital risk correspondent, is there amongst the crowd, checking out the latest product offerings and any privacy or data security issues they might pose.
0:37.2	Hi, Mike.
0:38.3	Hey, Amy.
0:39.3	So what's the scene at CES?
0:40.3	Are you having a good time?
0:41.3	Well, I'm sitting here on the floor of a hallway at the Las Vegas Convention Center,
0:47.3	surrounded by large groups of people, including one guy who's doing a video conference call to London,
0:53.3	but that's sort of the experience of CES.
0:56.5	You're kind of surrounded by this incredible sea of humanity.
1:00.0	It's sort of like being on the Beijing subway.
1:03.0	So that's part of the charm, part of the thrill.
1:07.0	So it's good to be here today.
1:10.0	Well, I guess a lot of the charm is just seeing all the latest products that they're offering.
1:14.6	So what do you think are the key trends in technology this year?
1:18.6	Well, first of all, I mean, it's just the size of this show is just incredible.
1:23.6	I literally got lost yesterday on one of the show floors and had to use my, the navigation
1:29.7	app on my phone to find, I'm not kidding, it's like being lost in the woods.
1:33.5	I really, moment of panic, like, where's the door?
1:36.6	I can't find it.
1:37.7	But, you know, so a lot of it is just the size and the scale this year.
1:47.9	One really big trend is mobility in terms of cars.
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