Brittany Kaiser, Co-founder of Own Your Data Foundation and Digital Asset Trade Association, chair at Gryphon Digital Mining
Brittany Kaiser is the current head of the board of Gryphon Digital Mining, a company that does eco-friendly crypto mining. She is a co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation, which promotes digital intelligence, and the Digital Asset Trade Association, which works to create legislation that protects people's rights to retain their digital assets. She is well-known around the world as a data rights activist and whistleblower in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
In 2009, Kaiser received a master’s degree in international relations from The University of Edinburgh. She then went on to acquire a doctorate in international law and diplomacy from Middlesex University in 2015.
Kaiser was the director of program development and business development at the now-defunct political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica from 2014 until 2018. She eventually left the organization, revealing the firm’s inner workings and how it exploited civilian data to target voters.
In 2019, Kaiser appeared in the Netflix documentary The Great Hack, which investigated Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in many countries’ political landscapes, including the United Kingdom’s Brexit campaign and the United States’ 2016 federal election. In the same year, she wrote and published Targeted, a book that tells the inside story of how huge actors are unlawfully capturing and using data to influence people’s decisions.
Kaiser works on data ethics and privacy rules in a variety of initiatives across sectors. She is also a public speaker, having spoken at major events such as the United Nations, European and British parliaments, the G20, and the Web Summit. She has also spoken at Harvard, Oxford, and Columbia.
Kaiser is the Chair of the Board for Gryphon Digital Mining, a large bitcoin miner and the first to be ESG-focused and carbon negative, who aims to go public on Nasdaq by the end 2023. She chairs the ESG and Corporate Governance Committees, and helped create the first Sustainable Bitcoin Mining Certification.
Here you can watch the latest interview with Brittany Kaiser:
2022
While not yet confirmed, Kaiser is likely to provide keynote lectures both online and in person, as she did in 2021. There are no announcements of what 2022 holds for Own Your Data Foundation, but it’s also expected to continue its quest to educate the world on digital intelligence.
With Kaiser on board, the organization is likely to continue facilitating training programs in local school systems and achieving its objective of expanding into enterprises and governments.
Latest news about Brittany Kaiser
The US government is introducing a new legislation to create a structured, transparent framework for digital assets, amid increasing scrutiny and pressure on the market. The SEC has expressed concerns about fraud, market manipulation, and investor protection. The crypto industry, which has long operated in a regulatory grey area, is closely monitoring these developments. Some see the proposed legislation as a positive step towards legitimizing and stabilizing the crypto industry, while others see it as a potential threat to the decentralized nature of digital assets. However, lawmakers must balance regulation with innovation to avoid stifling growth and pushing innovation to less regulated areas.
