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The primary implication is that your use of centralized services will eventually lead to information leakage of data you didn't intend to share with anyone else
by kordless 12y ago
The primary implication is that your use of centralized services will eventually lead to information leakage of data you didn't intend to share with anyone else. Remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
As our digital footprints expand, so does the probability we'll leak data we didn't expect. One solution to this problem would be self-hosted SaaS services. Keep your data where it belongs: at home.
- schoen 12y agoI think Dwork's account is that the continued use of services without careful statistical analysis and addition of noise will lead to information leakage. She didn't seem to argue for or against decentralization, but rather that there is no such thing as a non-personally-identifiable fact or a non-privacy-sensitive fact (eventually every fact might lead to some inference that a data subject didn't want to be drawn, in some hypothetical situation).