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>The way to achieve radical transparency is simply a law that says that if you hold (some kinds of) personal data, you must make it publicly available for free.
by Sir_Substance 9y ago
>The way to achieve radical transparency is simply a law that says that if you hold (some kinds of) personal data, you must make it publicly available for free.
That'll work, but the theorem behind it is nonsense. We're trying to prevent people from building up secret stores of data on other people, but where I would force such an individual so caught to delete that data, you would force them to share it.
The enforcement cost is the same either way because it's mostly in the discovery and the prosecution, so where's the savings in sacrificing all privacy in the process? There is none, so we might as well keep privacy. What a silly proposal.
- devit 9y agoThe idea is that users will no longer give services so much data if it's guaranteed to become public (and thus services will no longer require or even ask for it), so the rule will tend to enforce itself. And if they do, then the data being public prevents those services from gaining a competitive advantage from the data, thus making it easier to compete with them, and resulting in a more competitive market and thus better services at lower cost for users.