Re:120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerVie...
by Balgair on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:13PM
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But why is it an asset to begin with? Why did it not stay a liability?
I hear things about how the data is the 'real' product, and how it's mostly used just to train algorithms that are then used to sell ads. More data, better training algos, better ad targeting, more money spent.
But that data can be remarkably easy to spoof and goof with. Garbage in = garbage out. That would be a liability to the algos, the real weak links.
So, I think that a tax is not the best idea.
Rather, the data needs to be made into 'garbage'. Yes, an obfuscation race will ensue, but there is always more trash than gold, more noise than signal.
If we really want to change the game, we need to have easy to use apps that will throw a minute amount of static on the instagram photos, that will put just a bit of background on the phone calls, and that will throw a small bit of random words into the emails.
Yes, PGP does this already, but we all know PGP is not easy to use (by design?).
We don't need 'total' security and safety, just a bit of fuzz will screw with the algos enough (thus the start of the obfuscation race/war)
I hear things about how the data is the 'real' product, and how it's mostly used just to train algorithms that are then used to sell ads. More data, better training algos, better ad targeting, more money spent.
But that data can be remarkably easy to spoof and goof with. Garbage in = garbage out. That would be a liability to the algos, the real weak links.
So, I think that a tax is not the best idea.
Rather, the data needs to be made into 'garbage'. Yes, an obfuscation race will ensue, but there is always more trash than gold, more noise than signal.
If we really want to change the game, we need to have easy to use apps that will throw a minute amount of static on the instagram photos, that will put just a bit of background on the phone calls, and that will throw a small bit of random words into the emails.
Yes, PGP does this already, but we all know PGP is not easy to use (by design?).
We don't need 'total' security and safety, just a bit of fuzz will screw with the algos enough (thus the start of the obfuscation race/war)