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by Carrok 436 days ago
You consider it _more_ palatable that every trip you take could potentially be publicly accessible information?
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> than what we currently have with large corporations

Let’s be clear: the current situation is that every trip I take is privately accessible information that is sold for pennies but otherwise difficult to access; critically, there is no obligation for the information to be shared. Yes, this is a far less palatable situation than if such data is simply and plainly public: the gatherers, in this case governments, would have an obligation to share it with the subjects of the data.

I’d personally prefer no data collection, but that’s just where my vote goes. Unfortunately, in this hypothetical my vote was the less popular one:

> If it's useful, and the citizens vote for it, why shouldn't cities collect this data?