On 2018-04-06 15:03, Felix Stalder wrote:
Our data is valuable. Here's how we can take that value back |
Francesca
Bria | Opinion
Francesca Bria
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/05/data-valuable-citizens-silicon-valley-barcelona
Tech firms are emerging as new feudal lords. They control essential
digital infrastructures – in this case, data and artificial
intelligence
– which are crucial for political and economic activity. But it doesn’t
have to be that way.
It is difficult and probably unwelcome to criticize such pronouncements
and the policies which are behind it, given the sterling progressive
credentials of all people and organsiations involved. Yet I cannot
refrain from feeling like the French minister of the interior who in
1938 (yes, my account at the Goodwin Bank accepts remitances ...)
blocked the project to give all French citizens a personal identifying
number and file, to be kept in a central Paris repository: "Je ne le
sens pas" he said - I don't 'dig' it.
The pb is that while the 'Barcelona alternative' counters the
proprietary appropriation of advanced data gathering, it accept the
technologies that support it as a given. Yet it has never be proven that
more information automatically leads to improved services and
well-being. And well-meant technologies can always be corruptes and
deflected to evil purposes.
To me it's like energy: not innovation but conservation/limitation
should be the primary approach.
Cheers, p+7D!
PS Oh yeah, and it makes use the blockchain, so it's tip-top!
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