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Re:My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a ... by wmf on Thursday May 01, 2014 @02:17PM (#7681664)
Maybe you don't need a technical solution. Maybe opt-outs with HIPAA-style fines for noncompliance would work.
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Re:My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a ... by crazy1van on Thursday May 01, 2014 @03:10PM (#7682049)
I feel this will become an exercise in box checking "compliance" just like HIPAA.

Sure, your medical records are encrypted on disk (but I have the key in plaintext right next them).

Sure, there's an opt-out on our site. Good luck remembering to click the opt-out button in the corner every time you visit.

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Re:My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a ... by stcredzero on Thursday May 01, 2014 @03:28PM (#7682165)
Trusted execution environments enable the kind of automation that addresses these complaints.

A government opt-out defaults database would partly address the 2nd objection. (Only partly)

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Re:My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a ... by nitrogen on Thursday May 01, 2014 @09:58PM (#7683786)
Anything with potentially negative consequences should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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