In this Los Angeles Times article, Lecturer Chip Pitts weighs in on how new tech companies like Banjo need to demonstrate how they are sensitive to ever-growing privacy concerns.

A dozen massive television screens hang inside Banjo’s war room in a nondescript office park here beaming streams of social media data, 24-hour news networks and an animated, spinning globe highlighting hot spots of activity around the world.

From this nerve center, which evokes equal parts “Dr. Strangelove” and Dunder Mifflin from “The Office,” a team of employees behind computer terminals are doing something extraordinary with the billions of public social media posts and other data points spewed onto the Internet each day: learning about events in real time before almost anyone else.

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Experts say tech companies like Banjo that have the ability to locate millions of people in real time have to demonstrate that they are sensitive to privacy concerns, especially after National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden revealed just how vulnerable most people are, said Chip Pitts, a lecturer of law at Stanford Law School and former chief legal officer for Nokia.

“Technology is neutral but it can be used for evil,” Pitts said. “You need to build upfront protections.”

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