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While the idea of selling and controlling one's own data is enticing, would people actually be willing to set up the requisite hardware/software to manage it al
by 0xname 8y ago
While the idea of selling and controlling one's own data is enticing, would people actually be willing to set up the requisite hardware/software to manage it all? I can imagine a sort of "black box" that manages user preferences but for the average person who doesn't necessarily care about privacy, the proposition of earning a few dollars a month doesn't seem like a strong motivator.
- rexpop 8y agoNo, and they shouldn't have to. The few dollars a month shouldn't be the primary the motivator, but it's hard to imagine--even, perhaps especially, for those of us pining for such a future--an internet in which our identities are not bartered for fractions of a penny.
- taurath 8y agoEveryone has a phone, and a private cloud to securely store data is not terribly insecure if done right. Life-Privacy as a first class feature of mobile OSs could be a huge opportunity to giving people more control over their data. I don’t see google doing this, but Apple could.