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> By 2025 at the latest, there will effectively be no such thing as privacy anymore. All personal data belonging to everyone will have been exfiltrated and will

• incompatible 7y ago
  "Exfiltrated" implies black market, but for the prediction come true, data would have to be leaked by the vast majority of organizations, including most of the banks. Possible, I suppose, given the difficulty of protecting data against all possible attacks, including release by insiders.
• pndy 7y ago
  > Does your 2025 prediction apply to black market sale or legal market sale? Your comment bring back Microsoft's Project Bali news from my memory [1]; this supposed data bank allows users to "manage, control, share and monetize the data.". That was bit than year ago and it seems they abandoned the idea as page doesn't load anymore (at least for me). [1] - https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-privately-testing-bali-a-way-to-give-users-control-of-data-collected-about-them/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-privately-testing...
• deepspace 7y ago
  Black market, but I am think a substantial portion of the data (specifically the stuff not protected by privacy laws) will be available legally too.