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It's my data, why should they pay a tax to the government for it? How about a data royalty. You use my data, you must pay me a royalty.
by joshuaheard 9y ago
It's my data, why should they pay a tax to the government for it? How about a data royalty. You use my data, you must pay me a royalty.
- kylehotchkiss 9y agoThe royalty is free access to Facebook, instagram, [insert free web service name here]
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- rbcgerard 9y agoAnd for the services that I paid for that lost my data?
- rbcgerard 9y agoYes! And if you “lose” my data you owe me big money. Also have the fine scale exponentially by data items.... data set of 100 people with 2 items (name and email = $400 total or ($2x$2=$4 per user x 100 users)). Data set with 1 million users and 10 fields per user would be $1B and $1,024 paid to each person... Then make companies bond their liability - with recourse against anyone up the chain of title if the data was purchased... Perhaps a bit draconian...
- TylerE 9y agoYou've just shut down every personal blog and small (or medium or large...) forum on the Internet.
- beambot 9y agoSounds like a blockchain solution in the making... /s
- grogenaut 9y agoHaven't you heard... It's all about blockchains of blockchains these days. Gives you ln(n) time instead of n. There is also interesting work in leader follower blockchains.
- tlynchpin 9y ago"It's my data" - this is absurd. Observations I make are mine, if I observe you it's my observation. I can tell stories about my observations, but if I make public statements about you that are false, that's a tort.
- njarboe 9y agoThis is what needs to happen. "identity theft" is what people fear. It would not happen if the banks got sued for big money and lost every time they lied to credit agencies about debts you did not default on. All this data breach stuff is mostly a bait and switch tactic from the real problem stemming from bank slander. Your security clearance report stolen by the Chineese from the US government OPM database[1]. This could be a real problem for you. Information anyone can get by paying for it? This would not be a problem if credit fraud and credit reports were not such a big problem. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/breach-in-a-federal-computer-system-exposes-personnel-data.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/breach-in-a-federal-co...
- PeterisP 9y ago"if the banks got sued for big money and lost every time they lied to credit agencies about debts you did not default on" is pretty much the situation in most (all?) of EU; if you dispute the claim, then the debt can't be reported to anyone else unless they can prove that it was you, and no, "they knew your magic number and your mother's maiden name" doesn't count as evidence. Coincidentally, we don't have the same types of mass identity theft issues that USA has.
- barrkel 9y agoIf that were true, your "observations" of a movie would give you the right to reproduce it, and that's not the case today.
- njarboe 9y agoGenerally facts can't be copyrighted. I think a lawsuit about copying the phone book contents is usually given as the basis for that legal precedent.