New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data

Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by jammygit on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:22PM (#20507924)

Jaron lainier wrote a great book about your model called “Who Owns the Future.” In it, he describes a future where almost all profits go to large cloud centres and there are no jobs. He argues that by monetizing the data people produce that trains the ai of the future, people could avoid some of this and still have dignified lives and be self sufficient

Edit: typo

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Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @04:11PM (#20509808)

I don't follow. If the majority of people create no wealth, it seems unlikely that getting paid only for their data is going be sustainable.

Today, no-one is interested in paying the poorest people in the world for their data.

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Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by tsumnia on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:10PM (#20508325)

With the occasional discussions about a Universal Basic Income, this is how I viewed it'd be plausible.

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Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by jammygit on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:47PM (#20509639)

Just to continue the discussion about the book, he dislikes basic income because it makes everybody fully dependent on the government for their wellbeing. He prefers a system where people have the dignity of having a way to earn their money :)

I'm not whether sure I agree or not, but the book was interesting

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Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by tsumnia on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @05:06PM (#20510205)

I don't mean basic income as a government expense; rather that the basic income is coming from selling your data and dictated by what the market is willing to pay for it.

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Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by jammygit on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @08:20PM (#20511355)

Oh interesting, I misunderstood

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