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Besides the "it can't be reliably anoned" answer, there are other issues. One key one imo is simply ownership. Why do they get to sell it, regardless of who th
by netcan 7y ago
Besides the "it can't be reliably anoned" answer, there are other issues.
One key one imo is simply ownership. Why do they get to sell it, regardless of who they are. I find the "terms of service" argument to be disingenuous.
I really think we need to completely change the way we do IP, and "data" has effectively become a new type of IP.
The default should be open/public domain, at lwats for anonyzable data. There are lots of reasons for it, economic moral and liberal.
- malnourish 7y agoExcellent question. In my mind I had been thinking that it could be analogous to census data. That doesn't answer the why though, or how it would bring commensurate benefits to civilians.
- netcan 7y ago>> in much the same way it benefits us now, just more. Tesla's data enables better driving software. Medical data lost motives medical tech, etc. If more people had access to it, the technology would improve more. The conventional argument for patents, is/was (1) to encourage/reward innovation and (2) avoid secrecy. Imo, #2 failed, for the most part. On innovation/etc... Ultimately data needs volume to be useful for ml applications. Opening all the datasets would also combine them, and improve their usefulness.