So the big deal is mashups and the massive amounts of data collected
by the services being mashed. And this is becoming known as
'Megadata'. Lots
and lots you can do when you have all this attention data, the
activities of your users, and then when you combine that with what
they do on other servers... Wow! The things you can do for your users
really is pretty damn impressive.
Well, I was thinking today that with access to data across the
activities of individual citizens accurate taxation suddenly becomes
really, really easy. I bet you all just shuddered at the idea of the
government (pretty much any government) having access to all that,
right?
So, why are we so cool with random companies knowing?
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2 comments:
I shudder because govs can legislate to use that information against you. Companies have to entice you. They have no real power of you.
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