| Consent must be explicit, informed and can be revoked at any time. Tech people could learn a lot from the BDSM community. Tech companies regularly violate all 3 principles. 1) Opt-out instead of opt-in is an abusive practice, only you're not getting fucked by a strap-on without realizing it, you're getting profiled and manipulated for monetary and political gain. 2) You have no way to find out how your information is used. Ironic in an age where so many decisions affecting you are made by automated systems where the output can be traced back to individual inputs deterministically. 3) Even if you do your research (=spend your limited time alive by playing zero-sum games with no benefit for you) and opt-out, you can't take back what's already circulating out there. And the solution is not that crazy - change laws so people own all data about them and all results of using said data, except specific well-defined cases. Then if a company uses your data without your consent, it doesn't pay a probabilistic tax called fines, it is forced to give you a part of its income and a part of its own ownership. |