Consumer Electronics Show shifts focus toward regulation and 'techlash'
As nearly 200,000 entrepreneurs, software coders, sales people and journalists converged on Las Vegas this week for the world\u2019s largest technology show \u2013 CES \u2013 there was broad acceptance that in the wake of the data protection scandals of the past year such as Cambridge Analytica, the tech industry is facing a \u201ctechlash,\u201d with a growing sense of distrust and skepticism from the public and regulators. While US regulators were absent from this year\u2019s CES because of the federal government shutdown, it was abundantly clear that there has been a sea change since CES 2018, with privacy issues taking center stage. The tech industry is \u201ccurrently in a privacy perfect storm,\u201d said Michael Petricone, the head of regulatory affairs for the Consumer Technology Association, which puts on the CES show.