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tbh, there's an upper cap on how much information an individual is worth. Say a pretty basic personal information (address, income etc) cost a dime each person
by Aperocky 6y ago
tbh, there's an upper cap on how much information an individual is worth.
Say a pretty basic personal information (address, income etc) cost a dime each person, it can get deeper and deeper until it is no longer worth any extra. 10 political opinion from this person? Interesting. Full reddit history? Maybe worth 2x the former. Facebook images? probably worthless. The point is that it quickly gets to the point where all of these information are noise and essentially worthless to an advertiser.
It is completely another story when you have people with authoritarian intentions coming in though.
- cm2012 6y agoThe government goes straight to the ISP 90% of the time anyway for things like internet history, and to the cell phone companies for location.
- novok 6y agoCentralized internet properties are probably good for foreign intelligence, but then the risk of that to people is also far less.
- roenxi 6y ago> It is completely another story when you have people with authoritarian intentions coming in though. The Nazi party went from ~2-3% of the vote to 37% of the vote in 4 years [0]. 5 years from 2-3% to the last election they had to contend with. If the strategy is to wait for people with authoritarian intentions to come though before getting worried about privacy it will be far to late; things can go south extremely quickly. It is advised to stop the databases being developed before it becomes obvious that someone is abusing them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#Ascension_and_consolidation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#Ascension_and_conso...