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One solution to both HIq labs and linked in is to give users, not these companies, some kind of ownership over their data. Instead of having information about
by syshum 9y ago
One solution to both HIq labs and linked in is to give users, not these companies, some kind of ownership over their data.
Instead of having information about you be owned by which ever corporation collects it, have it at all times be owned by you.
While there are some clear problems with this approach, something needs to be done about companies building databases of ruin where every moment everyone lives from the day they are born until the day they die are cataloged into database for review either by society in general or by algorithms looking to make predictions that impact an individuals future.
I should have some level of control over my Personal information, today even if you actively suppress the 1st party info you put out in the world the number of 3rd parties adding to your profile dwarfs any data you personally put out there, from credit reports, to government databases to credit card companies to soon your web browsing history sold by the ISP's
It is ,IMO, out of control
- nine_k 9y agoData you own is not public, by definition. This needs to be made abundantly clear. Something like "all rights reserved" on images.
- EGreg 9y agoAs usual this is the "copyright" debate. So is your public profile copyrighted by you? The actual server is controlled by you or gives you a way to take the data down. But by then it could have been republished elsewhere!
- avip 9y agoYou do "own" the data. It just so happens that by registering to LI, you've granted A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information and content that you provide through our Services, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoTo whom have you granted the license to? I could see a legal argument that you've granted LinkedIn such a license, along with the right for LinkedIn to sublicense and transfer it, but still retain the right to press claims against third parties that scrape LinkedIn and use the information. I don't think you've granted LinkedIn the right to sue to enforce your claims against third parties, so you'd have to sue directly.
- rmc 9y agoThe EU data protection law is sorta like this in theory. Users can't give up some rights.