This is the world we’re moving into. It’s one where every online interaction of any small commercial value will be tied to a precise human identity, and that’s the only thing that will make the Internet even remotely usable in the future. Questions of privacy and accountability in that world matter.
We already leak a lot of this data, but critically *relatively little of it has been centralized and exploited* in the ways end-users are afraid of (they pretend to care about ads, but they don’t.) If we’re moving into this new world we need to think hard about tech and policy.
@matthew_d_green Have you given consideration to the framework for thinking about these kinds of problems that @VaroufakisDE writes about in his book #technofeudalism?
I feel like the problem here isn’t that people aren’t giving enough thought to what we are building, but rather that people *have* thought about it, decided that’s the future they want to build, and they’re busy consolidating its defenses while it’s still marginally vulnerable to any subversion at all.
