It is an attempt to outline the current shift in attitude towards privacy from different perspectives.
Governments want more transparency on usage of personal data and give users access to their personal data. Have you heard of Smart Diclosure and Midata?
It happens that giving users back their data and enable them to do whatever they want with it, is not a threat to innovation. Quite the opposite. It seems to me that there is very pertinent approach such as VRM that would benefit customers and companies.
Does it make more sense to you now?