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"Today, the spoils are distributed unequally: the larger the companies’ data set, the more it can learn from the data, attract more users and hence even more da
by joe_the_user 4y ago
"Today, the spoils are distributed unequally: the larger the companies’ data set, the more it can learn from the data, attract more users and hence even more data. Currently, this is most apparent with the dominating large tech companies such as FAANG, but it is predicted that this will also be increasingly importantin non-tech sectors, even nation states. "
The idea that a scheme like this, which involved effectively universal DRM, could change the current inequality, is just preposterous. Sure, this might threaten a Google or Facebook model but a Disney or Elsevier would love this and the existing success of data aggregators who own their data shows where it would go.