For many people optimistic about the future of technology, the recent innovations of Metaverse, NFTs, and the prospect of digital ownership can be exciting. However, issues are starting to arise from these innovations regarding the privacy of people’s personal information. Brittany Kaiser, the co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation, spoke at the 2023 SXSW session titled “Own Your Data: Empowering Our Digital Future,” where she discussed the legal and technology solutions to those problems.

Kaiser began by noting that we’re at the tip of the iceberg regarding the big data crisis. “We are producing exponentially more data every single day,” she said. “What that means is that the issues we’re dealing with today only become more exasperated as more of these advanced products and data science, artificial intelligence, and robotics continue to be released day by day.”