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"There’s no quick fix here." I think people are thinking to small. Imagine if you could own your data profile and "invest" it into websites or services. Everyo
by thelasthuman 8y ago
"There’s no quick fix here."
I think people are thinking to small. Imagine if you could own your data profile and "invest" it into websites or services. Everyone builds their services to accept this same "profile" formatting and the user takes it where they pleases.
This would mean small upstarts can compete with google and Facebook (who right now have a huge head start on having all this data) by having a better UX.
right now, everything is trapped in all these different walled gardens. I see it like your cellphone only being able to call cell phones of the exact make and model of your own.
- pgroves 8y agoI've been thinking about this lately. What if the web fundamentally was data collection of what a person is doing, and then things hang off that. Right now it is a collection of information that you can 'find'. Like your photos, web history, and fitbit would be generating your profile which is the fundamental part of the web, not the 'addressable places to get javascript apps' we have now. Anyway that's as far as I got. Good luck and let me know how it goes.
- hunterjrj 8y agoInteresting idea. How would ownership extend to metadata derived from your profile? For example, one of the claims made during the Cambridge Analytica hearings was that the data that they had in their possession could be used to derive political leanings, sexual orientation, purchasing habits etc. I'm certain that this is where the value of the data is. No platform genuinely cares about cat pictures and birthday wishes - they care about how likely you are to purchase an advertiser's product. Or, cynically, they care about how many degrees of separation you are from a person under investigation. This is not data that you've created directly or intentionally.