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by dfgert
2637 days ago
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Protecting users data is a very hard problem to solve in current tech landscape. There are enormously profitable business build around this and are driving significant portion of economy. Only solution I can see is to build alternative economic model that can thrive while protecting data, otherwise it would be an uphill battle with all tech giants that are going after user data for profit. |
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For data protection to work efficiently, there has to be a centralized store of data that's deemed private, with a way to authorize / deauthorize consumers of your data. Of course, with centralization, it paints a big red 'hack me' crosshair.
Privacy is already lost. There are already cameras everywhere, be it personal home Nest cams, or surveillance cameras inside grocery stores, or street cameras at traffic lights. The fights now for data protection, IMO, are just feel-good initiatives that aim to provide a false sense of data privacy. Take Facebook for example - they've pledged to protect your privacy, offer data protection tools, a way to export all your data. Before privacy became a huge thing, I'm pretty sure people felt comfortable putting all their photos and data in Facebook due to the trust in them being a large enough company that they should protect your data, right? Same goes with Equifax. Same goes with banks and credit card processors.
The burden of data privacy and protection lies more towards the end-user than towards multi-billion dollar companies you entrust your data with. They may provide the tools, but once your information is out there, it's retrievable via various means by bad actors. You can keep guns in your home to protect your family, but if you aren't educated enough to use them properly or if you leave your doors and windows unlocked, it's not going to help.
Edit: my case in point - Facebook records found in public Amazon cloud servers [0]
[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/millions-...