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Seems like an is ought question that is long settled: look at the credit reporting agencies. We may be doing impressive new things and figuring out how to lear
by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Seems like an is ought question that is long settled: look at the credit reporting agencies. We may be doing impressive new things and figuring out how to learn a lot more about people, but who owns data on a person is a dead and buried question.
- mywacaday 9y agoNot dead and buried in Europe with GDPR coming.
- skocznymroczny 9y agoWhich will add another checkbox that you have to tick once when entering a website. EU is not the ally of ordinary folk when it comes to the Internet.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoIt absolutely is. I hope more jurisdictions follow suit.
- PeterisP 9y agoActually, GDPR seems to be explicitly designed so that no amount of checkboxes or legalese in terms&conditions can be sufficient to continue as-is, companies actually would have to change behavior to be compliant. Lots of previous threads have discussions about the particular details. Of course, we'll have to see how it turns out in practice, but it's just a couple more months.
- specialist 9y agoI'm not dead yet. USA's credit reporting agencies are a bight on humanity. All the power with none of the accountability, ambiguous rules ruthlessly enforced, profiting from other people's misfortune.
- PeterisP 9y agoThe fact that credit reporting agencies currently are obviously abusing data that they're not able to safeguard doesn't mean that the question is dead and buried, quite the opposite - it means that the role of credit reporting agencies will have to change as their abilities will eventually get legally restricted and they won't be able to continue in this manner.