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Well, you can get a headstart on what is planned by looking through the rather tiresome WEF's website. Here is an example of what I mean: https://www.weforum.o

Well, you can get a headstart on what is planned by looking through the rather tiresome WEF's website. Here is an example of what I mean: https://www.weforum.org/reports/advancing-digital-agency-the-power-of-data-intermediaries https://www.weforum.org/reports/advancing-digital-agency-the... "With the integration of screenless technology into everyday life, the data ecosystem is growing increasingly complicated. New ambient data collection methods bring many benefits, but they also have the potential to amplify mistrust between people and technology. In this Insight Report, the World Economic Forum’s Taskforce on Data Intermediaries explores the potential to outsource human decision points to an agent acting on an individual’s behalf, in the form of a data intermediary. " This is talking about have a trusted intermediary between you and your data. Its plainly a bad joke - morally, its unambigious - you own your data. But that cannot work with the planned infrastructure, so we have to go through a charade of building trust etc with google, Apple, 3-letter agencies, etc. Question: who will own/run those purported 'trusted intermediaries'? Government and business will provide leadership here... That doesn't make me feel all warm and cozy, no.

ssivark 5y ago
Data fiduciaries (if it’s anything like how it’s being done in India) seem like a very good idea, actually — so long as the entity holding the data has fiduciary responsibility to the users, and cannot merge/collude with the entity using the data for whatever. Enforcing this without corruption is obviously non-trivial, but it seems a substantially easier task to regulate the interface between clearly delineated entities (with competition on each side) than trying to regulate huge monoliths (Eg: Facebook) that are incentivized to make internal information flows look like a ball of mud architecture, to avoid legibility to outsiders and the consequent regulation.
- verisimi 5y ago
  Name one responsible entity.

ssivark 5y ago

Data fiduciaries (if it’s anything like how it’s being done in India) seem like a very good idea, actually — so long as the entity holding the data has fiduciary responsibility to the users, and cannot merge/collude with the entity using the data for whatever. Enforcing this without corruption is obviously non-trivial, but it seems a substantially easier task to regulate the interface between clearly delineated entities (with competition on each side) than trying to regulate huge monoliths (Eg: Facebook) that are incentivized to make internal information flows look like a ball of mud architecture, to avoid legibility to outsiders and the consequent regulation.

verisimi 5y ago
Name one responsible entity.