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I’ve been in similar situation and it was really hard to be effective in product / high level planning meetings because it is easy to be blindsided. At the time, I was still an youn engineer in a big co, so I just thought it was my lack of technical experience, but in reality it was nothing technical to it but BS politics.

What boils down to is that people who have any extra data access privilege will have the lead.

Most of the insights will come from aggregate data, so I think companies could work around privacy concerns but I am no GDPR expert.

Back in my days in academia, there was a saying “if you have the trace, you have the paper”.




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