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The Ultimate Godwin reason. The French people, presumably, trusted the French govt. in 1936 when they filled in their census data. Big Data is not a modern ph
by SixSigma 12y ago
The Ultimate Godwin reason.
The French people, presumably, trusted the French govt. in 1936 when they filled in their census data.
Big Data is not a modern phenomena. It was invented in the 1930s by IBM and the Hollerith machines. The success of tabulating 40+ million Prussians was repeated across Europe.
The French census data was bravely protected by prevaricating French administrative staff who had realised the consequences but delay turned into eventual capitulation.
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You cannot trust your future government, it could be anybody, with any agenda.
- cheepin 12y agoI think this is a big point that gets overlooked. The question isn't really whether or not the current powers are trustworthy with your data. It's really whether every possible steward of your data is trustworthy over an arbitrarily long time-span.
- r00fus 12y agoNot just governments, but corporations as well.
- Ar-Curunir 12y agoAt some point the difference ceases to matter.
- jeangenie 12y agoI think that's a really interesting point that isn't adequately considered. It's also surprising that there isn't more liability and therefore risk associated with systems that make mass breaches (Target, Home Depot, J.P. Morgan, etc.) possible but I suppose no one's particularly concerned about consumers.
- SixSigma 12y agoAt some point the data could be considered more valuable than the original business activity and some organization makes moves to gain legitimate control of it.