For me, this touches on everything that is wrong with the setup we find we have. How we lose our privacy and are beholden to our corporations and governments.
* We are separated from our data. It should be ours, and we should be able to allow for corporates to access it if we choose to and we are able to understand the usage.
* The options we are given here are to be able to move our data from one corporate entity to another. Hardly the solution individual ownership of one's data and privacy.
* We are looking to government legislation to make this right for us, but governments like having access to all the data that the corporations share with them. Governments are in the business of managing populations at scale - the more information they have, the better modelling, nudging, manipulations of the population they can do. Basically corporate and governmental interests align.
* Not to forget that corporations lobby governmental entities for the legislation they want. Even if the legislation states one thing, there are ALWAYS backdoors that are understood.
I'm sorry to say that the attack on privacy is a coordinated one with governments AND corporations. If you hope that this time the government will write better legislation or that corporates will do the right thing, you are mistaken. They only care about being perceived to do the right thing - so public relations.
If you are aware of all that, and have a solution, I would be interested to hear. I think any solution would involve individuals acting very defensively about their data. Any solution that begs government or corporations for better action this time is doomed.
* We are separated from our data. It should be ours, and we should be able to allow for corporates to access it if we choose to and we are able to understand the usage.
* The options we are given here are to be able to move our data from one corporate entity to another. Hardly the solution individual ownership of one's data and privacy.
* We are looking to government legislation to make this right for us, but governments like having access to all the data that the corporations share with them. Governments are in the business of managing populations at scale - the more information they have, the better modelling, nudging, manipulations of the population they can do. Basically corporate and governmental interests align.
* Not to forget that corporations lobby governmental entities for the legislation they want. Even if the legislation states one thing, there are ALWAYS backdoors that are understood.
I'm sorry to say that the attack on privacy is a coordinated one with governments AND corporations. If you hope that this time the government will write better legislation or that corporates will do the right thing, you are mistaken. They only care about being perceived to do the right thing - so public relations.
If you are aware of all that, and have a solution, I would be interested to hear. I think any solution would involve individuals acting very defensively about their data. Any solution that begs government or corporations for better action this time is doomed.