In many ways it’s a prisoners dilemma problem. We can contrive many particular cases where your individual data might put you at risk, but the fundamental probl

In many ways it’s a prisoners dilemma problem. We can contrive many particular cases where your individual data might put you at risk, but the fundamental problem is that broadly having access to many people’s data allows the people who hold that data to do analysis on it and to have enormous levels of control over the population because they can carefully tune their actions and messaging based on that data. Ultimately your individual data is far less important than the aggregate data for making these decisions- and you are impacted regardless of whether your personal data is available or not. The question is whether or not we could get people to collectively act in their own self interest and push back against data collection. Based on what we’ve seen over the last 2 years with the pandemic I have absolutely no hope for humanity ever being able to collectively act in its self interest and the road to hell will be paved with people asking “how does it hurt me, personally, right now”.