randalthor23 t1_j5mnvp0 wrote on January 24, 2023 at 2:07 AM

Reply to LPT: If you are looking at your phone while stopped at a red light, hold the phone up in front of you rather than looking down at it. You will notice when the light changes and traffic starts moving. by no_username_for_me

Nice try officer

randalthor23 t1_j06tke6 wrote on December 14, 2022 at 2:20 PM

Reply to comment by Candid-Bike8563 in Facebook Leak Just One Reason Taxpayer Data Sharing Must Stop by aleahey

I have always thought that we could solve this issue with regulation. It would function something like this:

The collected data is yours...you own it.
Corporations have to ask your permission to use it
Corporations have to ask your permission to sell it (ie: they cannot sell it if you dont approve of the sale)
They have to tell you who is buying your data, and the new corporation inherits the same set of responsibilities for their copy of your data.
When content is presented to you using your data, you should be able to right click (mobile long press) to view what data elements were used to identify this should be targeted to you.
If your data is stolen/accessed/modified during a breach you need to be notified within 30 days.

Now, thats not something that can just easily happen, but I do think this might actually be a valid use case for blockchain technology. It should be able to be used to create a leger for your data, track it, and provide the info needed to tie you to it ensure they can contact you about it. This would also allow you to "opt out" with a flag on your data that would just stop corporations from even asking your permission to sell it.

The idea here is transparency & control over the data, rather than blocking the collection entirely. I do believe there are reasons it can be useful, however without transparency to the user this can EASILY used to manipulate us.

randalthor23 t1_j06rxq0 wrote on December 14, 2022 at 2:08 PM

Reply to comment by Banea-Vaedr in Facebook Leak Just One Reason Taxpayer Data Sharing Must Stop by aleahey

Not entirely, big data should be able to extrapolate changes in your activity and make reasnoble assumptions. Big data is 100% rational/logical and has no emotions tied to its decision making, it has idetic memory and will never forget something, and can VERY easily track your standard patterns and identify/track deviations from it.

Im not saying Bid Data will always know every time for everyone, but just disagreeing with the fact that Big Data will only know after you start searching for pregnancy/child related items.