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I agree that this won’t change anything significant until the law makes it mandatory, however a huge step towards getting the lawmakers to do so is tho have the

I agree that this won’t change anything significant until the law makes it mandatory, however a huge step towards getting the lawmakers to do so is tho have the tech already out there and working well with hundreds of smaller players. That will save us years of lobbyists claiming it’s unworkable, to expensive, technically impossible, etc.

ls15 4y ago
> however a huge step towards getting the lawmakers to do so is tho have the tech already out there and working well with hundreds of smaller players. Not only this, but it will also prevent a scenario where the political will is given, but the tech does not exist yet and then the lowest bidder will implement it, instead of a genuinely interested group of players.
shafyy 4y ago
> That will save us years of lobbyists claiming it’s unworkable, to expensive, technically impossible, etc. Lobbyists will do this regardless if the tech exists or not. They currently doing it for messaging app interoperability, even though open protocols and APIs have been around since the internet started. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying let's not work on this tech. Just saying that this is not some hard tech problem that needs to be solved. If a law would be passed today that forbid companies from saving customer data, a dozen startups would launch tomorrow with this tech.