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One, rather drastic, approach would be making the data of everybody freely available to everybody, think post-privacy society. At least that's how I originally
by freeflight 9y ago
One, rather drastic, approach would be making the data of everybody freely available to everybody, think post-privacy society.
At least that's how I originally imagined this Internet thing to play out as, too bad it took the exact opposite direction.
- bllguo 9y agoI like drastic, because what else is going to spur the powers that be to revamp how we approach identification? Something dramatic like this is almost necessary at this point. Equifax was huge and yet what reforms have we seen? Is anything even in the pipeline?
- freeflight 9y agoI fear this will take the usual course of action: It's gonna get worse until something really bad and really large scale happens, only then will people realize the need to act, but then it's usually already way too late.
- murph-almighty 9y agoSo Equifax?
- simias 9y agoDid the general public really feel the consequences of that data breach personally yet? Not to go all Godwin but when the parent mentioned "something really bad and really large scale" my mind immediately went to the holocaust and other genocides. Can you imagine a totalitarian regime having access to this type of tracking data? It's pretty chilling.
- jay_kyburz 9y agoyeah, I'd prefer the data were simply out there, at least average people would know and understand what is known about themselves.