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The problem is that they haven't realized there are actually two markets: one where the police can pay for customer data and another market where users can pay
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
The problem is that they haven't realized there are actually two markets: one where the police can pay for customer data and another market where users can pay to have their data made inaccessible to police. Then it becomes a bidding war between LEO and the public. It's a great way to do price discovery on sensitive information which is presently subject to inefficient market solutions all while collecting a tidy profit on the side.
- para_parolu 4y agoPolice also pay with user’s money
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThank you for the excellent segue as to why the police's monopoly on violence is a market failure that can be addressed by reinvisioning the gig economy.
- Teever 4y agoYou're missing a third and far more chilling option -- that the people can pay for data on the police. If we must exist in a world with no secrets then there must be no secrets.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThe police can simply pay to have this data made private. That is, if business wishes to capitalize and create a market for it.
- Teever 4y agoIt won't matter. We're quickly coming to a time when police brutality will be solved by crowd-sourced drone hits on brutalizing officers.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoAh yes, the Uber-but-for-drone-strikes angle. Such a fertile business opp, too. Wish I'd gotten in on the ground floor. FOMO
- ever1337 4y ago