Your Child's Data Profile Starts Before They're Born | Eamonn Maguire of Proton

My wife is convinced that her iPhone listens to the conversations because we'll have a conversation at dinner and then she'll get served an app. The profiles of your child is being created even before they're even born. There's no real transparency over to say how exactly these profiles are are created in the first place. You think your child is safe in their bedroom, but all these companies are basically changing the behavior of your child. Do you think that they'll develop an ecosystem around maybe Proton will be the kernel around an ecosystem of privacy to Tom will be the kernel, around an ecosystem of privacy to counter the Googles and Metas of the world so that someone with the born private email address could then participate in social media or participate in search without having them having somebody build this elaborate detailed profile of them. We're gonna talk about Born Private, but, Proton has a bunch of privacy preserving products. I thought maybe you could start by introducing yourself. I know that you've been working in this space for a long time. I believe you have a PhD from Oxford and that you worked at CERN. Is that right? Mhmm. Am I wrong on that? Yeah. No. No. You're not wrong. So that's correct. So, yeah. Can you can you introduce yourself and and give give that background? My background is varied, I would say. I started most of my professional type of career was in bioinformatics. It was basically using computational techniques to analyze, like, genetic sequences or protein sequences and so on. And, that very much got me into the academic mindset of things. And I went and did a a master's in bioinformatics and then a PhD in in computer science, Largely focused on also, quite a bit of bioinformatics, but I also worked in security, applications, a lot of stuff in insider threat, for example. Worked in things of digital humanities, also like analyzing poetry, for the way things were are spoken and how it's, how you can visualize that type of information. So I sort of my my major interest for a lot of my life was working on visualization, data visualization. So the intersection of of computer graphics, mathematics, statistics, machine learning later, I would say, and then the computer science aspect of it. And, yeah, visualization opened up a lot of different avenues, in fact. So I worked in biology. I worked in security. I worked in digital humanities. I, yeah, I ended up doing my postdoc at CERN. I spent a couple of years there, then I went and worked in finance, for three years, taking a lot of what I learned from, I would say, the previous my previous career cycles, into finance also. So I did a lot of work, applying the techniques typically used in biology or bioinformatics, but doing it using those techniques in in financial time series analysis, for example, or looking at, different …