”Digital enterprise, in my mind, is under some...
"Digital enterprise, in my mind, is under some stress” due to privacy concerns, said Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker at the Small Business Forum hosted by The Atlantic Wednesday. “The governance of the Internet today is run by ICANN and…
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there’s a lot of pressure globally” for Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers not to govern independently, but “to be run by the U.N.,” or other multilateral organizations, which Commerce doesn’t support, she said. The Internet should be “as fluid and flexible and free as it has been,” said Pritzker. Commerce is “sitting on a treasure trove of data,” she said. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration produces 19 terabytes of information daily, but only 2 terabytes are made available to the private sector for weather information, she said. The department’s job is to determine “what do we do with that data and how do we make it available,” which Pritzker described as a “long-term process.”