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Your idea is the start of something I model as a "consent framework". Dialog boxes don't seem effective to me, but tracking your data does. Who accessed your

Your idea is the start of something I model as a "consent framework". Dialog boxes don't seem effective to me, but tracking your data does. Who accessed your data, and when? Who has permission to your "current" data? Did an entity you trusted with your data share the data? And more. Nothing can perfectly capture this, but right now, nothing even tries. With a functioning consent framework, it would be possible to make digital laws around it -- data acquired on an individual outside a consent framework can be made illegal, as an example. If a bank wants to know your current address, it has to request it from your "current address" dataset, and that subscription is available for you to see. If you cut ties with a bank, you revoke access to current address, and it shows you your relationship with that bank still while also showing the freshness of the data they last pulled. All part of a bigger system of data sovereignty, and flipping the equation on its head. We should own our data and have tools to track who else is using it. We should all have our own personal, secure databases instead of companies independently having databases on us. Applications should be working primarily with our data, not data they collect and hide away from us. This, and much more, is required going forward.

nextts 2y ago
Been thinking about this idea too. The concept of data residency seems like a farce when eu-central is owned by AWS who answers to the US government. An inverted solution has say a German person using a server of their choice (we get charged by Google Apple etc. for storage anyway) and you install apps to that location operated by a local company. Been musing on this and how it could get off the ground.
- survirtual 2y ago
  You get it off the ground the same way you get a calculator off the ground. You build it as an indispensable & obvious tool. You have to imagine the auxiliary applications that become possible with this model. Start with useful personal tools and grow it outwards. This model can ultimately replace every search engine, every social media experience, every e-commerce website, etc. it allows for actually much easier app development, and significantly less compute centralization. What I am saying is don't look outward for ways to make it happen, look inward. This model goes against every power structure in the world. It disempowers collective entities (corporations, governments, etc) and empowers individuals. In other words, it is completely politically and economically infeasible with the current world order, but completely obvious as the path forward for humanity. You will not make money pursuing this line of technology.

nextts 2y ago

Been thinking about this idea too. The concept of data residency seems like a farce when eu-central is owned by AWS who answers to the US government. An inverted solution has say a German person using a server of their choice (we get charged by Google Apple etc. for storage anyway) and you install apps to that location operated by a local company. Been musing on this and how it could get off the ground.

survirtual 2y ago
You get it off the ground the same way you get a calculator off the ground. You build it as an indispensable & obvious tool. You have to imagine the auxiliary applications that become possible with this model. Start with useful personal tools and grow it outwards. This model can ultimately replace every search engine, every social media experience, every e-commerce website, etc. it allows for actually much easier app development, and significantly less compute centralization. What I am saying is don't look outward for ways to make it happen, look inward. This model goes against every power structure in the world. It disempowers collective entities (corporations, governments, etc) and empowers individuals. In other words, it is completely politically and economically infeasible with the current world order, but completely obvious as the path forward for humanity. You will not make money pursuing this line of technology.