Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by jpetso on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:39PM
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You can approximate the point at which companies decided to own our data by looking at when they transitioned from client-side software with local file storage and open protocols to web services with proprietary protocols.
Microsoft is still in the process of transitioning. Google, Facebook and Amazon likely never had a data-agnostic phase in the first place.
Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by rhizome on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:28PM
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I wonder at what point companies decided they could own our data, and we agreed to it.
It's been a boiling frog situation, but it's not so much that they decided they could own it as that it's been established that we don't. It helps to think of these companies as scavengers picking up the data we trail behind us on our travels. Even so, by at least the Target breach (2013) the message has been that we have no claim or recourse.
I wonder at what point companies decided they could own our data, and we agreed to it.
If I write something on a post-it note and give it to my coworker, will 3M rear its head and demand ownership of that information? No, of course not. So why do we allow Google to own our information when we use their software and/or office equipment?