“You allow that privacy to be compromised for a benefit,” says CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan

People are willing to adjust their ideas about privacy if they can benefit from revealing more of their personal information, the CEO of Infosys Technologies said Thursday.

“You allow that privacy to be compromised for a benefit,” CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan said during a talk at MIT’s Emerging Technologies conference. The definition of privacy must now take into account whether personal information is “properly used to give additional benefits,” he said.
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