Reply to post: too much data

Oz government wants much more personal data sharing

Colin Tree

too much data

NSA in the good old US of A has a problem with too much data.

They have data on 2/3s of the worlds population.

A simple search returns too much data.

The same will happen here.

So the answer is to give them more and more, drown them with data.

Computer resources cost money, it's an inescapable fact.

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I proposed a long time ago to hold your own data, so it can be accessed,

but licensed so you have to give permission for limited access to parts of your data.

No more filling in online forms, but rather allowing controlled access to your data.

Your license could also involve a cost in using your data.

It also gives you legal ownership of your data,

with associated protection against misuse.

You keep the data up to date, you maintain a log of who accesses what data.

You can sue for misuse.

Once you publish something with an attached license it becomes protected.

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