With an increased dependence on the cloud, is privacy still a consumer concern?

It seems like consumer privacy is going to drive a lot of decision making, especially since it's on the ballot this year in California.

Do you declare geofences for your compute resources and for your data movement based on the different customers they're serving?

Right now you have policies, but policies are only as good as enforcement and enforcement is only as good as the penalty. And so, you wind up with people saying, "Oh yeah, I'm GDPR compliant," or "I've constructed the system to be GDPR compliant or CPRA compliant." But at the end of the day, you have very, very little way to automate the verification of that. It's a lot of work. It becomes an architectural review and then you're looking at regional access to inputs and it's just a disaster. So you need a way to bridge that. It’s this bridge between physical and digital... There is digital twin, the ability to create a copy of everything, physical or digital, and it's a huge aspect of 5G along with various other capabilities within 5G. But I think that people have a tendency, whenever they're addressing a problem as daunting as privacy or security, to look at these fundamental technologies as panacea, and then ultimately everybody gets disappointed with the reality. It's never as good as the Sci-Fi. Very, very few people on the Enterprise-D, I'm sure, were concerned about whether or not their computer core was subject to Klingon attack whenever they were within a light year of warper. Sci-Fi is great for predicting a lot of things. It's fascinating to me how technology mirrors the art, and how the imagination gets unleashed, but it's easy to glaze over the hard problems in Sci-Fi. It's almost like these problems have to converge to the point that regulation, penalty and the available enforcement and the infrastructure's ability to report its configuration so that you can synthesize that, and the AI that you will inevitably need to be able to process all of these pieces of data to figure out that there was this privacy violation or security violation, or pick your favorite as a violation. It's almost like all of those have to converge. And when they do converge, then the world becomes a better place. Maybe that's a Sci-Fi topic that would probably be covered in an episode of something.