Speaking Of Crypto

Elizabeth Renieris earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, she attended law school at Vanderbilt University, and then did her master’s in law at the London School of Economics. Although many high school graduates are opting out of college or traditional post-secondary education, we talk about the benefits of getting this kind of formal education. One of the ideas that she believes is important around getting a university education is the ability to “cross pollinate with people who are in different disciplines studying different things, perhaps in different graduate schools.”   Elizabeth specializes in the area of identity and data privacy in the crypto and blockchain space. The conversation around data privacy has been focussed on the viewpoints of the consumer or big business, but Elizabeth talks to me about data privacy from the perspective of a lawyer.   “We're very quick to blame tech, big tech, big data for a lot of the breaches of trust that we've seen from the large online intermediarie