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that horse left the barn over a decade ago. my attitude has changed to where I used to do security and privacy work to mitigate risk from a coming corporate cyberpunk dystopia, but now I think the idea of governments getting a monopoly on surveillance is the worst possible outcome.

a real solution would be to legally privilege and disqualify classes of personal information from civil and non-violent criminal legal proceedings based on how they were collected, and PII collection sources material to commercial decisions must be disclosed in offers and contracts.

insurers and creditors would actually have to take risk again instead of being rentiers, police are servants and not governors, and the provenance of PII as evidence would have to be proven as from a legal and prescribed source that included explicit consent. there is no stopping the flow of data collection, but we can improve laws to manage it.




It is not an either/or. You can just disallow to collect personal information and it would be valid for state and advertisers.

Information is power and if insurances and producers know everything about you, you will be squeezed like a poor victim.

On bad days I believe people that overshare information deserve that fate, but there isn't really an argument against just regulating collecting information or make them seriously accountable for this information being leaked with severe financial penalties.

It wouldn't even be hard to regulate. Enforcement wouldn't be easy, but I guess the risk for many companies would just be too high to even try.




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