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If there is legislation that makes it manditory to release private data one of the first issues would be how to even define what data should be published and ho
by zitterbewegung 10y ago
If there is legislation that makes it manditory to release private data one of the first issues would be how to even define what data should be published and how often.
The second issue is that there is a nontrivial cost to making data public. And since you are a business most often you might get low quality datasets that either would take real effort to clean or extract knowledge and who is going to do that?
- ThePhysicist 10y agoFor public organizations we already have legislation that obliges them to publish their data (or at least we're getting there, like currently in Germany), so it wouldn't be so difficult to take this and adapt it for private companies. And sure cleaning and publishing this data would take effort, for which one could compensate the companies though. And as there is often just no way for the public hand to generate this kind of data, I think we will definitely see some legislation in this area very soon.
- amelius 10y agoAlso, tax law requires a company to hand over information such as invoices. And since drivers are contractors (thus not employed by Uber), I only think it is consistent that the government gets information on the work performed by them.