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

The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

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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Chapters

1. S2E21: Containing Big Tech, Federal Privacy Law, & Investing in Privacy Tech with Tom Kemp (Kemp Au Ventures) (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Tom Kemp (00:01:59)

3. Tom's new book - Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy and Democracy (00:03:13)

4. Tom describes U.S. state privacy legislation he helped get passed & what he's working on now, including: CPRA, the California Delete Act, & Texas Data Broker Registry (00:11:16)

5. Tom and Debra give their thoughts on whether there will ever be a U.S. federal, omnibus privacy law (00:16:52)

6. Tom explains what should be included in a U.S. federal privacy law there were comprehensive U.S. privacy law (00:21:27)

7. Tom explains why a federal U.S. privacy law should require the use of Global Privacy Control (GPC) (00:28:15)

8. Tom explains how a federal privacy law should be appropriately enforced (00:32:53)

9. Tom describes his work as a privacy and security tech Seed Investor with Kemp Au Ventures and what inspires him to invest or not (00:38:38)

10. Tom describes why he was prompted to invested in privacy tech companies: Privacy Code, Secuvy, & Privaini (00:44:41)

11. Tom's advice for how companies can better shift left in their orgs & within their business networks (00:49:43)