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It seems the author is missing the point in advocating big government solutions and government regulation to somehow fix the privacy problem. Imagine if you ow
by gibsonf1 8y ago
It seems the author is missing the point in advocating big government solutions and government regulation to somehow fix the privacy problem.
Imagine if you owned and controlled all your email vs. gmail reading it all? For companies, owning their proprietary data is an enormous market. I'm planning to launch a Solid service on top of Allegrograph in the next month or two to service my business customers.
- wmf 8y agoI don't think they're missing anything. The article mentions that even though you "own" your data in Solid, companies will still cajole you into "consenting" for them to data-mine it.
- gibsonf1 8y agoFor the email example, people will have a choice of paying a small amount for a cross-platform private/encrypted UX service, or free by allowing a company to read and datamine all of their email. I'm guessing a surprising number of people will pay a small amount for privacy given how badly things are going in the silos today. And that UX service can easily import a users entire email history from google and others, and then use the graph to expose relationships and browsing not currently available in google and other services.