The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
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Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#2Probably because the threat is relatively new. It took hundreds of thousands of deaths and decades to get us to the current mandated safety standards for cars. It’s going to take a while for tech to catch up.
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#3Probably because the threat is relatively new. It took hundreds of thousands of deaths and decades to get us to the current mandated safety standards for cars. It’s going to take a while for tech to catch up.
The perceived impact is much less noticeable than deaths. When the bodies pile up you invest in seatbelt regulations, and may even create jobs making them. What if there's no bodies to count?
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#4Why not our information? Nationalise the New York Times!
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#5Probably because the threat is relatively new. It took hundreds of thousands of deaths and decades to get us to the current mandated safety standards for cars. It’s going to take a while for tech to catch up.
Heck, most people in government simply don’t even understand the issue, let alone figuring out how to solve it.
AFAIK only one US 2020 presidential candidate atm is even talking about data rights.
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#6Because some of us want our government not to protect our Food and Cars as well. Data is one area where humanity has made the fastest progress compared to Cars and Food.
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#7Probably because the threat is relatively new. It took hundreds of thousands of deaths and decades to get us to the current mandated safety standards for cars. It’s going to take a while for tech to catch up.
The perceived impact is much less noticeable than deaths. When the bodies pile up you invest in seatbelt regulations, and may even create jobs making them. What if there's no bodies to count?
> The perceived impact is much less noticeable
Especially after the data is laundered with machine learning and other opaque algorithms.
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#8Why not our information? Nationalise the New York Times!
I've seen one instance where the NYT seemed to recognized their complicity in the problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/data-privacy-trac...
I was pretty proud of them then
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#9Probably because the threat is relatively new. It took hundreds of thousands of deaths and decades to get us to the current mandated safety standards for cars. It’s going to take a while for tech to catch up.
Heck, most people in government simply don’t even understand the issue, let alone figuring out how to solve it. AFAIK only one US 2020 presidential candidate atm is even talking about data rights.
This is a good argument for term limits. The old timer's holding on to their power is not doing anyone any good.
Re: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
#10Because some of us want our government not to protect our Food and Cars as well. Data is one area where humanity has made the fastest progress compared to Cars and Food.
Care to elaborate? Outside of unleaded gas, most externalities in the car industry seem to progress slowly in the absence of regulation.
Technology in cars can be rapid but seems to ignore those externalities